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...Rudolf Amenga-Etego is no stranger to conflict. As a college student in the early 1980s, Amenga-Etego protested Ghana's military rule; government officials threw him in prison and threatened to execute him. A sympathetic army captain helped him escape. These days he's fighting global institutions like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The subject of his protests: water...
...summer, Subrin will travel to the Sundance Institute for what she calls her “biggest accomplishment.” The script, one of eight chosen from over 3500, was selected by the institute to be have four scenes shot with a professional cast and crew. Fellow VES Rudolf Arnheim Lecturer on Filmmaking, Robb Moss says Subrin was chosen “because her work is interesting and fresh.” He explains, “She works at creating images that flow off of each other to create an idea rather than strictly following the fiction plot...
...Caruso. At 22, with a music degree from Loyola University and a smattering of experience with regional companies, he tried out for the Met's Auditions of the Air, billing himself as Charles Anthony Caruso. He won the auditions but lost the name: the Met's then general manager Rudolf Bing convinced him that it would be prudent not to invite comparisons with the legendary tenor...
Cancer: The Wound That Never Heals Back in the 1860s, renowned pathologist Rudolf Virchow speculated that cancerous tumors arise at the site of chronic inflammation. A century later, oncologists paid more attention to the role that various genetic mutations play in promoting abnormal growths that eventually become malignant. Now researchers are exploring the possibility that mutation and inflammation are mutually reinforcing processes that, left unchecked, can transform normal cells into potentially deadly tumors...
...very heartfelt way." So do many theater-goers, who've become hooked on his trademark touches: classic stories boldly re-imagined, with plenty of movie references, strong veins of visual humour (in Nutcracker, now playing in Sadler's Wells, the dancing cream cake is hilariously reinvented as Rudolf Valentino), a touching sense of vulnerability (the same show has Clara in a frightening Victorian orphanage) and plenty of sex (2000's The Car Man had some very steamy things happening on car bonnets). Those qualities have made Bourne, 43, that rarest of things, a choreographer whose name sells tickets. Witness...