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...first time I ever went to the opera, my grandmother had to bribe me with a piece of chocolate cake during each of the three intermissions in order to keep me in my seat. However, I have since come to appreciate the garish costumes, bold sets, and powerful singing that make opera unique. Though the Dunster House Opera (DHO) Society’s rendition of “Così Fan Tutte” is a more relaxed interpretation of these operatic traditions, Saturday’s opening night performance was entertaining and carefully composed, successfully bringing the high...
...himself plutocrats; but the virtuecrats are supposed to believe in something. So when Robertson et al ignored the conspicuous apostasies of Rudy and, in his earlier more liberal life, Romney, in order to jump on the bandwagon, they exposed a much less lofty agenda: they just liked their seat at the table, they didn't want to lose, and they didn't seem to realize that by signing on with a front-runner, they were following, not leading; demonstrating weakness, not strength...
...reason for the local resistance? Anger over having Martinon - a longtime Sarkozy adviser and current presidential spokesman - be handed the nomination many locals believe should go to outgoing deputy mayor, Arnaud Teullé. Teullé and other local UMP officials soon accepted Martinon's being parachuted into the safe seat by the national party, but they failed to diffuse ambient resentment...
Abida Hussain has a lot of explaining to do as she campaigns for a parliamentary seat in Pakistan. The 61-year-old, two-time member of the National Assembly is a veteran of the country's rough-and-tumble politics: she has switched political parties four times. That has helped earn her the derogatory epithet lota, the round-bottomed (and thus wobbly) pitchers used in Pakistani bathrooms. But this time around, Hussain has a powerful ally: the ghost of Benazir Bhutto, the popular former Prime Minister who was assassinated on December...
...Clinton wins the primaries and in November, then it will stave off the inevitable, that there will be a political cost for supporting her. Some people in the black community are looking at the black politicians who represent them right now and wondering whether they could lose their seat in Congress. The fact that that's on the table right now is interesting...