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Harvard dancers will be in a bit of a strange position this weekend, and it won’t be a split. They’ll have to contend with the usually unwelcome possibility that a promising but inexperienced upstart might steal the spotlight at their show, yet they don’t seem at all unhappy.That’s because the scene-stealing youth is not a dancer at all, but the new Harvard Dance Center, which this week’s Inaugural Gala Concert will celebrate. So far, the center has received praise from dancers...
...Also in the Walkleys spotlight were Rory Callinan and Tim McGirk, finalists in the magazine feature writing category. Their compelling special report about a disastrous 2002 Australian Special Air Service patrol in Afghanistan ("In the Valley of Death," June 6) created a political storm for the Australian Defence Force and the federal government. Brisbane-based Callinan has set a cracking pace with his reporting on Australian national security and defense, and from Papua New Guinea, since joining Time last year. Please join me in congratulating Tom, Rory, Tim and the rest of our team on their splendid achievement...
...eight years since CarolMoore's daughter Michelle was brutally raped and murdered in Norfolk, Va., the holidays have always seemed to shine a spotlight on that empty chair at the table. This Thanksgiving was one of the worst. Just two weeks before the feast, three Navy sailors who had confessed to killing her daughter and are serving life sentences filed a petition maintaining their innocence and requesting a full pardon. Wounds Moore had hoped were slowly closing were ripped open again. She went through the motions of the holiday like a zombie, forgetting things, unable to focus, crying...
...judged on its own terms. Doing so reveals some embarrassing missteps. On the painful “Ms. Hill,” Kweli recounts the entire story of the Fugees’ breakup, and Lauryn Hill’s subsequent rise to solo success and quick fall from the spotlight, in tabloid-worthy detail. While the story is interesting enough, and the nostalgic beat is appropriately soulful, no one ever asked the emcee for “Behind the Music: Eccentric Alt-Rap Songwriter Edition.” We asked for hip-hop.He delivers on this tacit demand with such future...
...close tie” between Lee and Riley for the “winner of the VP debate.” While I applaud Banerji and Lee on their awards, let’s hope that, in the future, clumsy moderators concede a touch of the spotlight to the candidates whom the audience came to watch...