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...that, unlike the numbers in most musicals, they didn't stop the show, but rather carried it on, each song a little scene in its own right, deepening the characters while advancing the plot. "I approach characters like an actor approaches them," says Sondheim. "With the risk of only slight exaggeration, by the time I have written a score I know the book better than the author does. I've examined every word, and why [a character] says...
...FlyBy have a slight obsession with watching episodes of Ivory Tower, Harvard's premiere soap opera. It's quite startling, really, how the show manages to transform such familiar venues like the Winthrop dining hall into foreign places that set the stage for conversations and interactions that don't actually happen in real Harvard life...
...shoppers, including its dollar program." The theory behind the promotion is sound. Most stores could not bring in a lot of revenue selling items at $1 a piece, nor could most restaurants, but Wal-Mart and McDonald's have such significant scale and customer bases that getting an even slight increase in discretionary spending from tens of millions of people could make the difference between a mediocre quarter and a good...
...recession has gone on so long and has been so crippling that the eyes of the wishful begin to play tricks. A small piece of economic information, like one month of very modestly improved housing numbers or one week of a slight decrease in jobless claims, sets off a chain reaction. If one set of numbers is OK, the next set will be better. Real estate prices will stop falling everywhere, if they stop falling in hard hit Nevada. (See pictures of Las Vegas...
...Lowell Dining Hall on Monday evening for the eighth annual Public Service Celebration, a formal dinner held to recognize outstanding senior volunteers for their achievements. While many students were honored for their social service work throughout the night, the specter of PBHA’s financial difficulties cast a slight damper on the evening’s festivities. Compared with previous years, fewer awards were distributed on Monday evening. “Due to some underperformance in the Harvard endowment, there was not as much funding to provide these awards,” said PBHA Executive Director Gene A. Corbin...