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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...country where half the population lives under the poverty line, some citizens are questioning whether spending an extravagant amount on a blowout party is the best use of government funds - particularly since the country is already funneling millions of dollars into a costly military campaign to prop up a shaky government against Islamist militias in neighboring Somalia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Ethiopia Parties Like It's 1999 | 5/9/2007 | See Source »

...simple movements originated from minuet dancing, perhaps commenting on old-fashioned dance forms. However, this choice limited the complexity of the performance, and the dancers’ long, obtrusive skirts covered the few challenging steps they executed. Moreover, the sporadic use of a plastic folding chair as a prop looked awkward and arbitrary. Despite the beautifully illuminated, single-file exit of “Untitled,” this piece was on the whole dissatisfying and unexciting...

Author: By Giselle Barcia, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ARTSMONDAY: ‘Bravura and Blues’ a Lovely Ballet Show | 4/29/2007 | See Source »

...question must be asked: Where was the tambourine? Many of the most impressive parts of this variation typically come when the dancer alternates playing a tambourine with her hand, elbow, and pointe shoe, rapidly. Moore’s dancing, though technically impressive, seemed incomplete without this key prop...

Author: By Giselle Barcia, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ARTSMONDAY: ‘Bravura and Blues’ a Lovely Ballet Show | 4/29/2007 | See Source »

...tolerated ones, are electronically present to us, however far away they may be. But I can't help wondering if we're underestimating the countervailing effect: the cost we're paying in our disconnection from our immediate surroundings, in our dependence on a continuous flow of electronic attention to prop up our egos, and above all, in a rising inability to be alone with our own thoughts--with that priceless stream of analog data that comes not from without but from within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hyperconnected | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...home at Christmas break, and I saw one of those dinosaur puzzles and I thought that was a good idea. I bought a wooden puzzle online, a model, and I played around with it in my room. Mine was two feet tall, and I wanted [the stage prop] to be eight feet tall. We sketched out all the pieces onto a plotter and then blew it up with a machine we had to [a size] four times as big. We scanned it into the computer and enlarged it times four. Once we put all the pieces together, I realized...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: SPOTLIGHT: Courtney B. Thompson '09 | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

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