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...enjoyable evening. Every member of the “Footloose” cast does their part with a professional quality born of talent and noticeable hard work. The music is marked by not just beauty, but life and character. The dancing is not only technically precise, but spirited.City boy Ren McCormack (Kevin Barlowski) moves from foot-tapping, music blaring Chicago to the sleepy small town of Bomont, only to discover that the town’s head honcho Reverend Moore (Sean P. Bala ’09) has outlawed dancing. McCormack assumes the role of town troublemaker and sets...
...dynamic, get-you-to-literally-stand-up-out-of-your-chair, musical whirlwind is about young, energetic protagonist Ren (Kevin Barlowski) who moves out of the city with his monther to a rural town that has outlawed dancing. So what does this little revolutionary sparkplug do? He puts on a dance, much to the chagrin of the uptight Reverend Moore (Sean P. Bala ’09), but to the delight of the Reverend’s daughter and his own love interest Ariel (Sarah-Jayne Blackmore...
...Turen is an odd name for a Chinese company. Ren means person, but tu is more complicated. Literally the word translates as "earth" or "soil," but it's often used as a slur, a put-down for anything that is backward or unsophisticated?the manners of a migrant worker, bad teeth, cloth shoes. When Yu's colleagues answer the phone, "Turen," it sounds like they're calling themselves bumpkins. Yu himself remembers being called tu when he arrived in Beijing from a rice farm in Zhejiang to enroll at the Beijing University of Forestry in 1980. He was 17, could...
...gave the first hint of something that would expose the harsh life, and deaths, of a group of Chinese illegals. The calls warned that cockle pickers had been caught by the tide on England's northwestern seaboard, at Morecambe Bay. Last Friday, one caller, later identified as Lin Liang Ren, from Fuzhou city, China, was convicted of the manslaughter of 21 Chinese men and women. (Authorities believe another two died that night, but their bodies have never been found.) Lin, the "gangmaster" of the cocklers, had misjudged the ferocious speed of the bay's tides. Each of the Chinese - almost...
...Given the mounting violence and allegations and counter-allegations flying between rival Haitian candidates, the UN Mission and other foreign groupings, holding a credible election right now becomes more of a challenge. Presidential candidate Charles Henri Baker, who trails behind frontrunner and former president René Préval, has preemptively blamed "tampering" by the international community in the event that he loses. "The next day, you will see civil war," he predicts. Préval, on the other hand, is so confident of his popularity that he has done almost no campaigning. "His record speaks for itself," says...