Word: techs
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...well as skill, including dance performances, a vocalist, a spoken-word artist, a guitarist, and—of course—several requisite references to Soulja Boy. Rejection wasn’t always determined by talent: the undergraduate dance group Expressions kicked off the night with a high-tech display, and the audience was quick to boo a glitch in the sound system. “When there are a lot of good acts in a row, the audience waits for someone to boo,” BSA president Sarah O. Lockridge-Steckel ’09 says. The Brothers...
...performance accomplished just that. In the sunken, small, and aged Pool Theatre, a strong sense of modesty is crucial to the production of a high-profile play. Director Anna C. Smith ’09 and producer Max A. Hume ’09 made clever use of low-tech stage equipment in the set, designed by Smith and Stephany Y.Z. Lin ’11, and kept the focus on the superb leading actors...
...problem, as epitomized by the tech boom, is that the Street never knows when to turn off the money spigot. A good idea once is a good idea a million times, to the point of excess. In the hunt for ever more profit, everyone gets carried away, ethics and laws are at times breached, and then, ultimately, the collapse comes...
These are heady days for tiny Panama. It is undertaking a massive expansion of the Panama Canal, luring billions of dollars in maritime and high-tech investment that could make it the Hong Kong of the Americas. But here's the other side: in the past few months, scores of toddlers have died of malnutrition in villages around the country. More than half of Panamanian children under 5 are at risk of suffering the same fate. That's why, say friends of Wilson (Chuck) Lucom, who died last year at 88, the eccentric U.S. millionaire left as much...
...fluctuations in the economy, but that the general public has typically ignored words of caution in the press because these predictions may not reflect the current situation. “Eventually I got tired of writing how crazy the stock market was,” Norris said of the tech bubble at its peak. Frankel said that the bubble was not covered extensively in the late 1990s because journalists are more interested in projects with a more immediate impact than those with longer time frames. John D. Cella ’08 said he was encouraged by the willingness...