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...artistic thaw didn't begin until the 1970s, as warming relations between the U.S. and China made cultural exchanges possible, including visits by the Philadelphia Symphony in 1973 and violinist Isaac Stern in 1979. That fired the musical interests of the Chinese at the same time the country's domestic policies were boosting music in other, unintended ways. Even during the Cultural Revolution, there was a need for musicians who could play the approved political operas; young people clamored to land those jobs, if only because that would permit them to remain in the city, rather than being sent...
...only look to the past for lessons about the evil of trays. As the Adams House REP rep said, “The goal of tray-less dining is not to make you eat less; it is to make you waste less.” Let this be a stern warning to all those who take Marsala chicken only as weights to keep their napkins from flying away. These fools can’t see the forest through the trees (because they cut them all down to print this issue...
McCain's first Montana TV ads appeared just two weeks ago. There appears to be some kind of rushed response to the tightening at the polls. The Montana state GOP challenged the registration of 6,000 voters in seven predominantly Democratic counties but drew a stern admonition from a federal judge. The Republican executive director lost his job shortly after...
...21st century what high tech was to the last, then this is no time to scale back. With investors rightly spooked, however, governments on both sides of the Atlantic need to show more leadership. "Seen in the right way, people can learn important lessons from [the crisis]," says Nicholas Stern, the British economist whose 2006 report laid out the financial merits of tackling climate change. "Low carbon growth will be a very important engine of growth over the next 20 years...
Joel Tenenbaum was doing what many teenagers in America do regularly: download music from a file-sharing program. For most kids, the punishment for this technically illegal act ends with a stern motherly talking-to. But for Tenenbaum, it was the beginning of a saga that landed the Boston University undergraduate in court...