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...course.' We all accept responsibility for what we did." And then Edwards wandered into the same pabulum swamp as Kerry, insisting that the effort in Iraq needs to be internationalized (as if the President weren't desperately trying to do just that). He too avoided the real thrust of the question: Do you believe the war was a good idea? This would seem a matter of some interest for Democrats, far more important than whether a war hero or a millworker's son is better positioned to beat George Bush. But punditry is less strenuous, and less dangerous, than clarifying...
...floors of seating, which have 890 seats in total, almost wrap around the stage, expanding outward from a moat-like pit that encircles the thrust. At one point, this cavity did contain water (it was a river in a production of Dead End), but now it alternates between simply being added to the stage and concealing an orchestra...
...floors of seating, which have 890 seats in total, almost wrap around the stage, expanding outward from a moat-like pit that encircles the thrust. At one point, this cavity did contain water (it was a river in a production of Dead End), but now it alternates between simply being added to the stage and concealing an orchestra...
What they've come to expect is a more expressive conducting style than that of his sometimes stern-faced predecessor, Dutchman Edo de Waart. Gelmetti's performance of Ravel's Bol?ro two years ago has already passed into Sydney folklore. Loose of hip, his stomach thrust forward, he seemed to coax Ravel's rhapsodic wave out of his shoulders. Seeing him perform the same piece with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra a year before, the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel went so far as to say, "Gelmetti conducts with his stomach." Whatever the case, his expansive enjoyment of the music is infectious...
...collegiate stigma against solitude is surprisingly strong, and college life often seems purposefully structured to give social interaction some inherently privileged status. Many of us come from homes where we had our own rooms. Hell, many of us were loners in high school. But as first-years, we are thrust into common living spaces. From that moment on, we are constantly in the company of other people—in the dorm, in our dining halls, in class, next to us on the treadmills. Unless you score a single in Cabot and embrace a hermitic lifestyle, chances are that...