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...dance with slightly incongruous forms of music. “What’s really interesting is that each piece of music doesn’t specifically correlate to the type of language,” Koch said. “The dance style doesn’t necessarily reflect the music.”Andrien saw a slightly different theme running through the pieces in the performance. For her, the show was a reference to modern dance’s history, an homage that she finds to be characteristic of the Dance Program’s thoughtful approach...
...type, Ruggie said, with a membership of over 4000 companies around the world. However, Ruggie said he’s ready for a respite from policy work. “I have been doing a lot of work on the ground. I want to sit back and reflect on it and do a book,” Ruggie said. Jane A. Nelson—director of the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative at the Kennedy School and a former UN co-worker of Ruggie—said that Ruggie’s work is “increasingly important in today?...
...when it comes to social change and political discourse, we need figures like Martin Luther King to mobilize individuals who share beliefs to make our policies reflect them, and we need opinion leaders like Congress and the Supreme Court to make policies that lead us to better beliefs. But we also need popular culture. It doesn’t tell us what to think—it tells us that others think what we think, too. It is the voice of the silent majority; it is the emperor?...
...when Obama was 10, Ann sent him back to Hawaii to live with her parents and attend Punahou, an élite prep school that he'd gotten into on a scholarship with his grandparents' help. This wrenching decision seemed to reflect how much she valued education. Ann's friends say it was hard on her, and Obama, in his book, describes an adolescence shadowed by a sense of alienation. "I didn't feel [her absence] as a deprivation," Obama told me. "But when I think about the fact that I was separated from her, I suspect it had more...
...story contained a quote from Tareq Sammaree that said Shi'ites worshiped people. Sammaree spoke in English, which is not his first language, and garbled his intention, which was to explain that, apart from worshiping God, the Shi'ites also venerate the Imams. The quote has been emended to reflect that...