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...changes from a courtroom to a city street with ease. Its many wooden posts also have the irritating habit, however, of obscuring faces at key moments. The show’s truly excellent chorus helps to keep Sondheim’s increasingly weighty narrative snowballing along, in spite of a few lengthy scene changes which throw off the show’s momentum. The chorus also gets to sink its teeth into the show’s many variations on “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd,” a jittering, melodic, gothic theme that drives what...
...Most China analysts, though, expect these difficulties to disappear after the Olympics. "They're having a few jitters, but China isn't going to cut off its nose to spite its face," says Kent Kedl, a consultant at Technomic Asia, a Shanghai-based market strategy firm. Plans are already afoot to give Hong Kong permanent residents of any nationality visa-free access to the mainland within the next few years, the kind of privilege that millions of Asians who work in the West can only dream about. "Getting my Chinese staff to the U.S. is an absolute nightmare," says Kedl...
...course, this latter need presupposes that the decision to force this choice on incoming freshmen will be preserved, in spite of its glaring problems. This decision does not encourage student freedom, but rather general ambiguity and confusion. Moreover, it will likely condemn one group or the other to a few semesters’ worth of inhospitable course choices from scant options and even worse advising—not the ideal way to kick off a new epoch of learning in Cambridge...
...incoming freshmen, who know relatively little about these changes, be expected to make informed decisions about competing curricula? Freshmen advisors complain of having been left in the dark, too, in spite of the fact that they will be expected to advise new students a mere four months from now. All of this, and administrators are hardly apologetic...
...than in the all-but-abandoned administration of the Core curriculum. Although administrators followed through on their pledge to relax criteria and streamline the process by which departmental courses are eligible for Core credit, efforts to encourage faculty to apply for Core credit are half-hearted at best. In spite of the fact that courses no longer need give final exams, can now be offered by visiting professors, and that even seminars are eligible, the Core Standing Committee received no more proposals this year than last. In each of the last two years, between 100 and 120 courses have been...