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...misfortunes. He doesn't pray to the Virgen de la Estrella; he doesn't stand in front of a homemade shrine of religious prints when he slips on his traje de luces, the ornate, sequined costume worn by matadors; he doesn't cross himself before he steps into the ring. But these breaches of bullfighting tradition have not kept him from becoming one of Spain's most promising young toreros. Two Sundays ago, he was again demonstrating the skills that have earned the 20-year-old a devoted following since his debut in March 2005. This time, he opted...
...occurs to you that the idea is mad, you aren't the first. "I thought it was foolish," said director Matthew Warchus. He believed it would be "instantly plausible" to do the Ring as a spoof. "It's such an earnest story, and people are so protective of it." Still, he signed on. Then he and musical supervisor Christopher Nightingale chose to break with the Broadway songwriting style and go for an ethereal, world-music sound. Two sounds, in fact: one from A.R. Rahman, the best-selling composer of Indian musical films; the other from the Finnish group Värttin?...
...point, Bilbo, the Hobbit whose accidental custodianship of the ring would lead to the War of Middle-Earth, plaintively asks, ?Don?t adventures ever have an end?? For the producers of this stage extravaganza - TIME got an inside peek for a forthcoming story - the answer is: not this one, not yet. After the show's much-anticipated opening in Toronto on Thursday, they plan a London opening of LOTR a year from now, then Berlin or Hamburg. Contracts with the Canadian co-producers require that Toronto is to be the show?s only North American venue for 18 months...
...best solution would be to cut down” blocking group size, he said. It’s easier to identify your true, closest friends than those more on the periphery, Svirsky added.And given the choice to go through blocking again or have his “ring toe cut off,” Svirsky said he would gladly choose the latter. —Staff writer Katherine M. Gray can be reached at kmgray@fas.harvard.edu...
Thanks to CampusTap, the Harvard blogosphere has evolved from a few isolated websites into a tight, well-oiled forum for students to debate campus issues, keep track of the local news, and just jabber around. CampusTap is the conscription of the guerrillas—a private ring of Harvard student bloggers with a consistent form, a unified index of topics, and an easily-searchable directory of names. Even the Cambridge Common folks have moved their operation over to the new site. Thanks to CampusTap, no Harvard blogger is an island.A BLOGOSPHERE IS BORNHarvard’s blogging pioneers were students...