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...twins’ role for one actress to keep the issues and topics confronted in the show at the front of the audience’s mind during and after the performance. If the separate actresses played the twins, the audience could easily write the play off as pure entertainment and not dig any deeper...
...book is not pure pain. Antoon also sings of love. In the beautiful "Phantasmagoria II," he writes: "Your lips/ Are a pink butterfly/ Flying/ From one word/ To another/ I run after them/ In gardens of silence." Again, there's no sign that our Romeo is roaming the streets of Baghdad. Instead, Antoon has turned the sick city into a mirror of the world at large, where desire and disaster are never far apart...
...York City this year under the auspices of Roland Fryer, assistant professor of economics at Harvard. The idea behind the program is to “pay for performance” by monetarily rewarding students who do well on standardized tests. Despite concerns that the program undermines pure academic motives, it is a commendable initiative. Opponents argue that this program weds the cultivation of knowledge with a market-mentality not fit for the classroom. But in schools where the teachers are underpaid, the classrooms are overcrowded, and students are more focused on earning money for basic necessities than their studies...
...Baird faced the tribunal next. Her wrap dress was inspired by “the original metropolis”... Ancient Greece? The judges were particularly wowed by her craftsmanship and praised the “pure form” of her ensemble. The main attraction for Mueller, however, was not form or function, sexiness or metropolicity, but rather the striking colors and utility of the dress...
...Joseph J. Oliver, president and CEO of the Investment Dealers Association of Canada, said that Carney’s experience as an investment banker would be an important asset for his new job. “This will be invaluable since the Governor’s role transcends pure monetary policy,” Oliver said in an e-mail...