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Behind the scenes, however, Battle often lives up to her martial surname. Divas are expected to be difficult; opera lore is rife with tales of their devouring egos and overweening eccentricities -- not to mention the outrageous quirks of arrogant male singers, especially tenors. But Battle is, according to many who have worked with her, impossible. Fussy, erratic and arbitrary, the headstrong soprano has infuriated colleagues and administrators and crossed swords with functionaries and hapless hoteliers across the globe. The cast of The Daughter of the Regiment applauded when it was told during rehearsal that Battle had been fired...
...first Computer Science 50 lecture, Jeff A. Ferrell '97 was expecting a small class, likely rife with pocket protectors and dry discussions of algorithms...
...Holder of the World is rife with literary allusions and parentage, a new approach to literary technique for Mukherjee, whose earlier works have not been self-referential as literary texts. The described narrative structure is nearly identical to that of Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; in this novel, an Englishwoman goes to India to uncover the past of her step-grandmother (same obscure relationship), a woman who left her British Civil Servant husband for an Indian nawab. Mukherjee blatantly refers to The Great game of Kipling's Kim. Hannah's cosmic relationship with history seems suspiciously similar...
...point central-committee blueprint outlined the basic themes of reform but was vague on key details. A new system of taxation will require the 30 provinces to pay more to the central government, which collects only about 13% of all taxes paid in a chaotic system rife with inequities. Credit will be somewhat restrained when commercial banks are freed of various obligations to support money-losing state enterprises, but that will be some time coming. Finally, privatization of state-owned companies was acknowledged as a distant prospect -- though the communique made it clear that for the moment public ownership would...
...have lasted out the year. This can be attributed to the fact that Pearl Jam has not limited itself to the mix of heavy metal and alternative sounds that crossed musical barriers to make grunge so popular in the first place. On its second album, Pearl Jam, while still rife with the guitar laden distortions that are the genre's trademark, easily blends acoustic, acid and blues sounds to achieve a harmony of theme and expression...