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...Paulus and chair of President Faust’s Task Force on the Arts, said that Paulus “has a range of experience and is about to have a lot more.” He emphasized that although Paulus has never led a dramatic institution on the scale of the A.R.T., she possesses the kind of “excitement, vision, and energy that leads to explosive, revolutionary things.” Bill P. Rauch ’84, the new artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, who was also considered for the position, said that Paulus...
...whole Chinese and international communities have come together to help those that have had their lives destroyed by this calamity,” said Zhongrui Yin ’11, a native of China who participated in the vigil. On May 12, an earthquake measuring 8.0 on the Richter Scale hit southwest China. Currently, 34,073 people have been confirmed dead, though the Chinese government estimates that the figure could reach 50,000 deaths...
...allowed her to trail behind," Li says. Now she is trying to find the other survivors from her family, which lost seven members. "Where we will go next, I don't know," she says. "This just feels like a temporary stop while we put ourselves back together." Given the scale of the destruction, the stadium housing may be less temporary than she thinks...
...that empyrean, but arguably in the ballpark. It's hard not to feel warmly toward Allen after VCB, his first vital movie since Match Point three years ago (we quickly throw the veil of oblivion over Scoop and Cassandra's Dream), and maybe his most engaging large-scale effort since, let's say, Crimes and Misdemeanors nearly 20 years ago. It doesn't percolate with the inventive comic situations or quotable one-liners of the films that established his meta-movie credentials, Annie Hall and Manhattan; but, like them, this one is about people whose jobs are incidental to their...
...monks are also on the move again. Buddhist temples and monasteries have always played a central role in helping the needy in Burma (as, in this religiously and ethnically diverse country, have churches, mosques and Hindu temples). After the cyclone, monks led small-scale relief efforts into the delta, the distinctive multicolored flags of their faith fluttering from cars and small trucks. Monks from well-known monasteries in Mandalay and elsewhere in Burma are either in the delta or heading there, while in Pakkoku - the Irrawaddy town near Mandalay where last year's protests originated - their brethren are reportedly soliciting...