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...billion. The economy is growing at its fastest rate since 2000, fueled in part by China's soaring demand for commodities?the 17,000-island archipelago is rich in oil, natural gas, gold, copper, nickel, coal, palm oil and rubber. Global confidence in Indonesia's prospects has also improved somewhat. In March, the country successfully raised $1 billion in its first international sovereign-bond issue since the 1997 Asian crisis...
...music to break the ice. According to Rahman, "Andrew would stop every now and then and ask, 'Who is this composer?' And every time he did that, it was me." Kapur called Rahman to say that Lloyd Webber wanted to work with him. "It just happened," says Rahman, still somewhat bewildered at the series of events that led to his involvement in Bombay Dreams. "I thought Shekhar was pulling...
...You’re so lucky to be able to play in an event like that,” said Harvard coach David Fish ’72. “I know it was chaos, and it felt somewhat like a free-for-all, but...what a thrill for our guys to be able to play in something like that...
...production of this difficult play is mostly smooth. The shifts in time are effected unobtrusively via a cuckoo clock and a brief change of lighting, designed by Ted T. Ashley ’06. Set changes are somewhat more obtrusive, due to the clunky three-piece stage, but fortunately rare. Not every joke has time to seep through, and some of the more dazzling effects (such as the large sections of limerick dialogues) are de-emphasized in favor of naturalistic delivery. However, much of the humor—particularly the political humor—proves successful, as when Carr innocently...
...history, and in the history of the concert commission,” says Haan, director of the Harvard Concert Commission. “There’s a potential for a lot of people to come…We’ve been informed that it’s somewhat unprecedented in the city of Cambridge to have an outdoor show like this...