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...explains the oft-noted lack of radicalism among most of the IOP’s students. Our times are not Kennedy’s times—for the most part, we don’t need a government that fosters a civil rights revolution, creates Medicare, or goes toe-to-toe with Khrushchev. We would settle for one that doesn’t abandon poor people to die in hurricanes and that prevents members of Congress from having cybersex with 15-year-olds.Some will mourn the decline of idealism among the students at the IOP. It’s true that...
...flat. But on its first run through, the rousing march is deemed too restrained. "Lawrence, have you got some advice for the clarinets here?" Rosse calls out to the Sydney Symphony principal. Rosse is even more assertive when it comes to the tuba section. "I want them to pronounce 'toe' as in Tokyo," he says, blowing out across a sea of demure, nodding heads. As it happens, Rosse has a Japanese wife back home in Australia, but today he relies largely on body language. Soon he has the hundred band members on their feet doing breathing exercises, which loosens them...
...week into my stay I found myself saddled with a large one rather closer to home—that is, with the woman living in the room next to mine. Grandma is the octogenarian mother of the Argentine woman who houses and feeds me during the semester. Her middle toe was sawn off a few weeks ago, and while she recuperates she’s staying with us. In two months of living two meters apart, we have never introduced ourselves. I am only known to her as “Psssst! Psssst...
...Bobby,” an account of how RFK’s assassination affected various people’s lives, features just about every talented yet struggling actor in L.A. Personally, I’m waiting for the “WARNING: May Cause Toe-Tapping”-CGI-penguin feature, “Happy Feet.” Then again, I’ll take anything I can get to forget Al Gore’s oh-so-awkward stint at this summer’s MTV Video Music Awards. I’m afraid the terms...
...acolytes in positions of power. "The Chinese leadership understands that releasing the details of corruption in Shanghai just before the October meeting will have a big impact," says Joseph Cheng, a China expert at City University of Hong Kong. "It's a clear signal to the Shanghai faction to toe the line and show allegiance to Hu." If they don't, the heat could get unbearable...