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...spirit of frustration brought Gale, who recently discovered she is the sixth-great-granddaughter of an abolitionist minister, to Alabama as the Courier’s one-woman Tuskegee bureau...
...lives a self-centered, self-indulgent, party-boy lifestyle and is hardly a role model for kids who want to break into competitive skiing or anything else. John Leach Naples, Florida, U.S. Anyone who says this young, aggressive, intuitive man isn't the embodiment of pure American spirit needs to watch the Olympic skiing events and learn about sport from Miller, who, for better or worse, will certainly dominate the races. He parties a lot and doesn't care what people think. But he isn't only about partying. He wins a lot. Part thinker, part natural athlete, Miller becomes...
...with musical direction by Emily Senturia, the operetta is a delightful update of one of Gilbert and Sullivan’s best. It is not so much that they are faithful to the nearly 120-year-old material, as it is that they retain the spirit of the original writing and music without making it too stiff or old-fashioned...
...There are few people more qualified than Roberts, 31, to write such an album. A self-described "wandering spirit," he is a compulsive traveler. For years before he made it big, he worked flexible jobs in Montreal--waiting tables, delivering furniture--to fund trips around the world. He visited Indonesia and Peru, and went to Africa a couple of times. (His parents are South African.) He became intrigued by what he terms the "predictable cycle" of traveling: being awestruck, comparing places with one another, getting homesick...
Precariousness is an essential element in the life of the entrepreneur, a French word now more associated with the much despised Anglo-Saxon "liberalism" and its merciless dog-eat-dog capitalism. But these days the best examples of the entrepreneurial spirit are hardly Anglo-Saxon: China, India, Korea, Chile, all rising and growing, even as France and much of Europe decline...