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Speaking of dances, my favorite piece is 'Bees,' because you go through a dramatic arc that involves a dance and a tragic death scene. How do you bring your dramatic flair to these? Because I write them, I already have a tone in my head. I occasionally make the males scream and suffer about their deaths, because I assume that nobody wants to die. Even in mating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

Many market experts expect this earnings season to do little to set the tone for the rest of the year. They assume that companies have been pounded into submission and that this has produced pessimism. In this climate, corporate management teams have decreased their forecasts to levels which they cannot fail to beat or match. It is like fixing a fight or a horse race, but it is legal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Boring Earnings Season with Bogus Forecasts | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...Despite the less heated tone of the meeting, local concerns about Harvard’s vacant property holdings in Allston continued to simmer...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Allston Locals Praise Harvard | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

...speech—in front of a full house at the IOP—was unabashedly partisan, and Frank set that tone in the first few minutes of the speech when he said jokingly that “when Obama talked about post-partisanship, I got post-partisan depression...

Author: By Crystal Huang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mass. Rep. Calls for Financial Regulation | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

...have helped that Obama introduced a personal tone to his appeal. Introduced as "Barack Hussein Obama" before his parliamentary speech, he referred to his own identity as the son of a Kenyan Muslim and his upbringing in Indonesia. "The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans," he told the Turkish deputies. "Many other Americans have Muslims in their family or have lived in a Muslim-majority country." (See pictures of Obama's family tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama in Turkey: Winning Hearts, Healing Rifts | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

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