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Even with the abundance of student talent, LHO sometimes hires professional singers to play the main roles in its operas, particularly for the most challenging roles. DHO, however, relies solely on undergraduate talent...
...Massachusetts must lead the way because the extraordinary intellectual resources of our state bring with them a moral responsibility to help alleviate human suffering,” Summers wrote. “No other area can match the concentration of academic and medical research talent in the life sciences that exists in Cambridge and Boston...
...Mazari. He did household chores and spent hours each day practicing the broad range of vocal scales found in classical Afghan music. Mirwais came to revere his master. Today, when they meet, the boy's face glows, and he bows to touch his teacher's feet. "He has good talent," says Mazari, "and, by the kindness of Allah, when Mirwais is 40 years old or so, with practice, he will become great...
...Florida is back, and if you thought eyebrows raised last time, wait until you read The Flight of the Creative Class. Florida finds that competition for creative workers has gone global (no shocker) and that the U.S. is about to miss out on the best talent because of restrictive immigration policies, a lack of R&D spending, the culture wars and stepped-up competition from abroad (cue the maelstrom). Not only are Americans more likely to get sucked into such cities as Sydney and Dublin, writes Florida, but China and India are increasingly able to retain homegrown talent that...
...screen talent was in it for the art. "I purposely would not act," says 70s performer C.J. Laing. "I despised the people in these films that said they were actors. I was like, 'You've got to be kidding me! This is about fucking and sucking!'" But quite a few thought it was about process and progress. Once the off-Broadway types got into porn, they relied on the actor's invaluable gift for self-hypnosis to convince themselves it was somehow legit. Spelvin, who says she appeared on Broadway in The Pajama Game and Cabaret, recalls, of Devil...