Word: singeing
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...when you strip away the politics, the largesse and the stagey rhetoric, the Howard-Costello paradigm does not resemble a long-term program to make today's students tomorrow's high-productivity workers. It's the skills, stupid! The 2006-07 Budget does not sing a melody that Australia is at the frontier of innovation, or even that it is on the road to becoming a Big Country in the world marketplace. Same old, same old song. Whatever, never mind. Just like the government, today we're all living large...
...Alpine nation, even though she's French-Canadian, starting a trend of Swiss outsourcing. Last year's Swiss representatives Vanilla Ninja were all from Estonia, and the country's 2006 multinational entry six4one has just one native performer. Luckily, the pop group won't be required to sing Switzerland's national anthem. Final odds: 28-1 Serbia and Montenegro No entry Even the soothing sounds of boy-band crooning can't calm tensions in Serbia and Montenegro. Although a Montenegrin pop group called No Name won a national selection heat, accusations of vote fixing and Montenegrin favoritism turned the Belgrade...
...million and a half Americans. But she does show excerpts from satirical series nearer home, including Rory Bremner?s Between Iraq and a Hard Place and the French puppet show Les Guignols de l?Info, in which effigies of Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac, Berlusconi and other European leaders sing a mockery of "We Are the World" (in English): "We f--- the world, / We f--- the children, / We f--- the world, the forest and the sea / So let us do it." Maybe even the Comedy Central censors would shiver at that...
...booking a complicated itinerary between Kansas and Texas,” she adds. Carlisle grew up in a musical Montanan household—“James Taylor was always playing,” she says. Her first major inspiration was her father, who taught her how to sing and play guitar while she was in her late teens. Her second influence, once she had learned to drive, came from the country stations whose signal filtered through her car. After arriving at Harvard, Carlisle found another inspiration at Harvard Square’s Club Passim—her producer/co-writer/keyboardist Russell...
...Wang had not let the deadline spoil his weekend plans. “The stuff I brought in was not ‘Hasty Pudding,’” says Wang, flashing a characteristic grin. “It was almost perversely dissonant and difficult to sing. It probably wouldn’t have been out of place in a postmodern opera.” Although Wang came up short in his first attempt at composing for the stage, it didn’t take long for him to strike a chord with the nation?...