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...talks to prevent the government from rolling back a reform that had been credited with reducing unemployment. Despite occasional disagreements and opposing party affiliations, Müntefering generally got along well with Angela Merkel, despite their opposing party affiliations. His replacement as Vice Chancellor, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who will retain his current post as foreign minister, has a more arm's-length relationship with the CDU Chancellor. The two recently disagreed openly on policy towards China and Russia...
...infrastructure can do a great deal of good. The BioScience paper, which aggregated years' worth of other studies, reported that green roofs can cut heat loss from a building 50%, reduce air-conditioning costs 25% and reduce the so-called urban-heat-island effect--the tendency of cities to retain heat--by 3.6şF (2şC...
...their family is involved in a feud with Leonardo’s. She convinces the townspeople to separate the lovers, and in the shocking wake of the battle that results, Lorca creates a world of great complexity and deep emotion.By rejecting translations, the Agassiz production of Teatro hopes to retain all of Lorca’s complexity and emotion. “We wanted to do it in Spanish because as good as translations can be, the original language is the author’s own words,” said director Christopher N. Hanley...
...This has in some measure changed, and numbers of classes—in music performance, painting, sculpture, writing, photography, film production, for example—now can be taken for credit. Yet such classes are never adequate for the number of students who wish to take them, and we retain vestiges of earlier attitudes in our treatment of the creative arts as subjects for academic credit in the undergraduate curriculum. Recognizing that any alteration in the undergraduate curriculum rests with the faculty of the FAS [Faculty of Arts and Sciences] and the resource decisions of its dean, I hope that...
...spoken dialogue as comedic now,” Powell explains. “The plot is ridiculously contrived. Characters confront each other with rhymed couplets before doing battle. It’s too hard to take seriously.”With the staging, however, Powell has tried to retain many of the stylized gestures popular in theater of the time. With the music, historical fidelity has even higher stakes.“Baroque composers left a lot of decisions unmade in the written music,” explains Hall. “You have to play the music...