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...center of the sports universe, swamped with fight fans and those who just wanted to be a part of an American spectacle. An unprecedented 7,000 rowdy fanatics, digital cameras flashing, went to Friday's weigh-in, a much-ignored ceremony in which the fighters stand on a scale in their underwear. On fight night, 19 HBO television cameras followed the action with one dedicated to getting facial reactions from the fifty deep contingent of celebrities, including Helen Mirren, Sacha Baron Cohen, Sean Combs, Tobey Maguire, Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Jennifer Lopez, whose husband, Marc Anthony crooned the national...
...arguing over the nature and scale of Islamic immigration actually gives the doomsayers too much credit, because they never establish why a demographic shift, were it to occur, would be a problem. Adomanis tells us that “the Europe we know today will soon be gone,” but why should we care? The Europe our great-grandparents knew—the era of Prussian junkers and Manchester’s dark satanic mills—is likewise gone. The real question is: Are the projected demographic changes bad? Here our prophets fall silent, largely assuming that...
...telecom though. He put the struggling telecommunications-equipment business into a joint venture with Nokia, creating Nokia Siemens Networks, the No. 2 manufacturer in its industry. The rationale was simple: in a rapidly globalizing telecom business, with distinctions between fixed line and wireless disappearing, Siemens had to get the scale to compete. "It's No. 2 from the start, and that's a big win," Kleinfeld told TIME. "We'll have a true opportunity to be one of the top players in the industry...
...typical “pops” orchestra tends to fit a well-known mold, playing a repertoire dominated by famous movie scores and large-scale arrangements of popular music. The Harvard Pops Orchestra, celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, is anything but typical. “What makes us different than all other student and pops orchestras is that we put on a show that’s theater. We’re sort of a hybrid,” says Elizabeth S. Weinbloom ’07. Weinbloom is a cellist and script writer for the group?...
...reason why we’re doing something so grand and epic as the Mahler.” At over 90 minutes in length, “Symphony No. 2” is an ambitious undertaking. “This is a work that is unprecedented in its scale,” says senior Glee Club President Matthew E. Growdon ’07. “[‘Symphony No. 2] is such an iconic piece that I think people who may not even typically enjoy classical music will find this to be a breathtaking performance...