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...Afterward, he lifts up the screen to show the design. Ten minutes go by, and the process begins again, this time with white paint. "Each different color in a design needs a screen," he explains. "So 16 colors means 16 screens." Most of the plain white silk and sky blue wire printing templates come from Albisetti in Cuomo...
...intricately staged considering the huge amount of dancers involved. Perhaps the most impressive aspect of the whole night was not an act at all—it was the set. The gigantic jungle-scape—that was miraculously transformed into golden fields beneath a blue sky for the second act—made abundantly clear the immense amount of effort and care that went into the production. Complete with life-size sculpted elephants emerging from the backdrop, the Ghungroo set, in all its beauty and intricacy, deserves heaps of praise on its own. The audience reacted quite well...
Regrets? Yes. But the certainty of some today that we have failed is as dubious as the callow triumphalism of yesterday. War is always, in the end, a matter of flexibility and will. And sometimes the darkest days are inevitable--even necessary--before the sky ultimately clears. Visit Andrew Sullivan's blog, the Daily Dish, at time.com
...lovers around the world. But off the field, there is little doubt that the two cradles of the game are increasingly overshadowed by India. In comparison with the Nimbus deal, TV rights to three years of English cricket went for $384 million last summer, to Rupert Murdoch's British Sky Broadcasting. Nimbus' record-breaking offer is indicative of unimaginable sums of money that Indian cricket, with its vast and ever more affluent fan base, is able to attract. "The passion that India has for the game is greater than any other country has for any sport," says International Cricket Council...
...University Hall was once more the site of an anti-administration revolt—with more than a dozen professors confronting President Lawrence H. Summers at a full Faculty meeting Feb. 7, and ultimately producing his ouster.Will the Summers storm cast its pallor on the College’s sky-high yield rate—the percentage of admitted students who choose to enroll?Last spring, Harvard’s yield topped the Ivies at 78.5 percent—almost a full 10 percentage points better than next-place Yale. And the director of college guidance at Collegiate High School...