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...number of recent government studies have demanded the State Department radically transform its approach to diplomacy, in line with the fact that America's most urgent foreign policy challenges today lie far beyond the genteel diplomatic circuit of the industrialized world. A former top Republican congressional aide who this month completed an assignment as an adviser to Ambassador Ryan Crocker in Iraq blasted the State Department's performance there in a valedictory memo. "The foreign service is not competent to do the job that they have undertaken in Iraq," wrote Manuel Miranda, citing "an excuse-making culture," "willfully negligent...
...with the addition of a bit of campy horror, the team added two musical numbers at the suggestion of producer Brooke E. Shirey. Despite the film’s setting, none of the participants have ever seen Harvard’s campus, instead relying on pictures to help them transform Pasadena, Calif.—the home of a friend’s parents—into Harvard circa 1990. The group spearheading the project recruited other friends to serve as dancers and vampires. “That was the easiest part,” said Lawson, an actor...
...opera relevant to the 21st century.Tying the direction, set design, and acting together is the live orchestral music that John M. Sullivan ’09 guides as music director. The music is expertly performed and enhances the audience experience. Along with the set, the live music works to transform a dining hall into a true opera house. At times, though, the music becomes too strong and drowns out the words of the actors. While the English translation should be easier to understand than the original Italian, it in fact may have detracted from the overall operatic experience and made...
...again—on Mars. By comparison, music videos today find themselves without a home. So in one sense, it’s very nice of art museums to try and give them a new home. More than any other kind of institution, art museums have the power to transform the raw materials of culture into intellectually elevated Works Of Art. The MFA and “Mirrorball” make no bones about these kind of aspirations: “at their best, these music promos have more in common with groundbreaking short cinema than commercial flash...
...design aims to transform the Shanghai Bund into a more accessible space to “reconnect the city fabric with the waterfront,” said project director Liang Zhao...