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Among Broadway?s musical classics, South Pacific has long had a special mystique. An instant critical and popular smash when it opened in April 1949, it swept the Tony awards, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama and ran for a then-extraordinary five years. For a generation of postwar theatergoers, it was cherished like almost no other American musical. In my own parents? rather sparse record collection, it was the one original cast album that got played over and over - the Broadway show music that provided the soundtrack of my childhood...
...McGregor puts it - than entertaining them in the traditional fashion. This isn't new in itself; what's new is the arrival of conceptual work in the dance establishment's mainstream. McGregor's Chroma, a starkly beautiful piece set in a minimalist box of white light, was the popular hit of the 2006-07 Royal Ballet season at London's Covent Garden, and led to his being appointed the Royal's resident choreographer - a radical evolution given that he has no formal classical-dance training. Other McGregor pieces are now in the repertoires of the Paris Opera Ballet, San Francisco...
...former co-president of the Harvard Taiwanese Cultural Society who has met Ma, praised him for being down to earth. “I think he’s a very genuine person, that’s why he’s so popular in Taiwan,” Lu said. “And people think he’s pretty good-looking.” But not everyone is as optimistic about the prospect of Ma’s presidency. Chieh-Ting Yeh ’04, who has also met Ma on several occasions, said he feels...
...think any endorsement for President means jack," Ed Rendell will tell you. But if you spend a morning watching the popular governor of Pennsylvania work the phone for his favored candidate, Hillary Clinton, you quickly see why he is the exception to his own rule...
...Even as questions about large cash loans from friends and associates piled up, Ahern routinely polled as Ireland's most popular politician, and defied many forecasts to win an unprecedented third successive term last year. Recognized by his peers as an exceptionally shrewd politician - one of his predecessors described him as "the most cunning of them all" - he played a key role in Ireland's epic economic transformation. He was also dedicated to the Northern Ireland peace process, once flying into a negotiation session directly from his mother's funeral. And he built on that to forge Irish relations with...