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...were about to quit for the afternoon on our tour through the Antasibe-Mantadia National Park in eastern Madagascar when the guide caught a flash of brown fur through the trees. He signaled to our traveling party silently, and we crept off the narrow path and through the thick tropical forest, hoping for a closer look. Russell Mittermeier, the president of Conservation International (CI) and a renowned primatologist, made the call. Tucked inside a hollow tree trunk were two greater bamboo lemurs, each the length of a forearm, staring back at us with orange eyes. We grabbed our cameras...
...public forum; the efficiency with which throwaway statements are enlarged, diagrammed, and deconstructed would do the academy proud. Barack Obama’s reference in front of an Iowa crowd last year to the rising price of arugula (as opposed, one imagines, to iceberg lettuce or a nice thick T-bone) was touted by many as proof of his elitist disconnect from middle America. The official comment that John McCain was “aware of the Internet” was neatly transfigured into an image of the Republican as an old fogey hunt-and-pecking at his dusty Underwood...
...have no idea how hard it is,” said Frederick.Meanwhile, in the drawing room, Felicity was entertaining Prince Filippo, who had become her most frequent visitor. The Prince’s manners perplexed Felicity—no, mostly it was his Italian accent, which was so thick it was sometimes hard to understand exactly what he was saying.As the Prince discoursed on the contemporary arts, Felicity doodled on one of her tables with a piece of chalk. She hoped the elongated curves she was drawing might inspire the Prince to some course of action.Suddenly he was beside...
Diane M. Paulus ’87 wears a navy blue suit to her office, but not without a thick silver bracelet spiraled around her wrist. The flashy piece of jewelry set against the somber hue of her skirt and jacket hints at the tension between the art and business sides of drama, a tension Paulus negotiates daily as the new artistic director of the American Repertory Theatre. “The primary mission of the A.R.T. is to advance the art of theater,” says Robert Brustein, the A.R.T.’s co-founder. And since...
...Their importance to the bailout measure is a reflection of the Blue Dogs' growing clout within the Democratic Party. Decades ago, when the South was thick with Democrats, there was a saying that Southern Dems were so loyal they're rather vote for a yellow dog than a Republican. As the party moved to the left, forcing moderates like Billy Tauzin and Jimmy Hayes (both former Blue Dog leaders) to switch parties, one member joked that the remaining moderates had been choked blue by the left - thus rechristening the group Blue Dogs. For a while their numbers dwindled...