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...many of us ponder alien life. They're pretty sure it's out there--but they can't prove it, they don't know how big it is, and they haven't a clue if it's dangerous. All of which is creating a bit of a stir among the dismal-science lot as their famous and thought-to-be-flawless colleague, Alan Greenspan, relentlessly jacks up interest rates to wage an undeclared war on this vague creature...
...more than 14 years, Marr worked to stir up interest--and find the financing--to get the project going. In 1990 he at last approached the Mystic Seaport for help; by 1998 a combination of state money and corporate donations allowed building to begin. "He found very interested ears when he came here," Snediker says...
When dramatist and poet Ben Jonson published his complete works in the early days of the 17th century, he caused quite a stir in Jacobean high society. It's not that his writing was particularly scandalous. The problem, it seems, lay in the fact that he included both his plays and his poems in the same book. And why was that so surprising? He waspublishing his complete works, after all. But in Jonson's day the emphasis would be on the word works and not on the word complete. It might seem like a silly semantic quarrel today...
Lots of politicians before McCain have tried to stir up the electorate with calls to duty and sacrifice, but they didn't have quite the same example to go with it. With McCain, the exact nature of this duty is left to the imagination, and that is one reason so many different folks are drawn to his campaign. It is why veterans break down in tears at his book signings. It is why some independents who stopped caring about politics a long time ago are suddenly reading and watching all they can about the primary contest. It is why those...
Entering Dunster's dining hall-turned opera house for the opening night of The Magic Flute, this year's Dunster House Opera, there was an overall excitement and stir that affected the mood of all. From the start, the audience was ready for a thrilling show, and the Dunster House Opera certainly did not provide anything less. The polished orchestra and the lively cast captured the audience with gusto, and they held their grip tightly throughout the show...