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...There's no stage in KA, but it's great theater. Explain. OK. This martial-arts extravaganza from Cirque du Soleil (playing at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas) is performed on, and above, two revolving platforms. As the artists cavort on a boat, or fight a battle, or swing through a forest scene, the ground is literally moving under their feet. As conceived by Robert Lepage, the innovative Canadian writer-director, the $165 million action musical is unquestionably the most technically complex show ever devised, achieving marvels Broadway is too timid and strapped even to dream of. The first...
More than two decades since Bono entered the world stage as a mullet-haired front man, he commands attention like no other cultural figure alive. When he visits Capitol Hill, his movement through the halls is split-timed. His lobbyists feed him tips so he knows, for instance, that Kentucky's Mitch McConnell has a thing for Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize winner who inspired U2's song Walk On. The rest is intuitive. Bono arrives with no security, takes gifts (a leather-bound volume of Seamus Heaney for Patrick Leahy, a framed copy...
...still in the discussion stage of the process,” Gross wrote in an e-mail. “I think everyone has been both open and helpful...
...another.” Kevin Casey, Harvard’s senior director of federal and state relations, said it was too early to assess whether or not such a testing regimen would ultimately be implemented in American universities. “The Commission is only in its early stages,” said Casey. “These are simply recommendations.” Casey said that the group’s job at this stage is simply to generate ideas and that he expects the commission to publish its final report in August. He said Harvard would wait until...
...highest bid of the night, $60. “It was a lot of fun,” said Bloomberg, who was bought by her boyfriend, Chris L. McConnell ’08. “I think people were nervous, especially when they just got up on stage and in the first few seconds there were no bids,” said Drew G. Davis ’09, a member of the FYSC and the night’s emcee. “But the FYSC had people in the crowd trying to help keep the bids...