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...billion in 2005, a figure expected to grow to $94 billion by 2015. And politicians on both sides of the aisle compete to look greener - David Cameron, the young leader of the Conservative Party, even changed his party's traditional freedom-torch symbol to an oak tree to trumpet his environmental credentials. Green living is "just higher up on the agenda," says Alex Harvey, a Canadian environmental activist who moved to Britain four years ago. "People are looking at lifestyle and consumption, across-the-board issues...
...current members are concentrating in fields other than music—the HRO has also serves as a professional training ground. Many current and past members of prominent American and international orchestras have played in the HRO, according to Yannatos.John D. Kapusta ’09, a trumpet player as well as a vocalist in the five-year joint degree program between Harvard and the New England Conservatory, is serving as assistant conductor this season. He is following in the footsteps of such heavyweights as Leon Botstein—now the music director of the American Symphony Orchestra and president...
This fall the Tudor trumpet is being noisily sounded again on the cultural front by the novels of Philippa Gregory, the Showtime series The Tudors and big-screen spectacles like The Golden Age, starring Cate Blanchett, and the forthcoming The Other Boleyn Girl, with Natalie Portman as the doomed Anne Boleyn and Scarlett Johansson as her sister...
...with his phenomenal hyperactivity, Sarkozy seems to have the four arms of the god Vishnu. It is not by accident that he has won over French voters. Sarkozy has skillfully used the media to trumpet the fulfillment of campaign promises such as tax reform, a tougher tack on crime and a more supple stance on the official 35-hour workweek. He has reacted to every tragic headline with the energy and compassion of a national psychotherapist. Never before under the Fifth Republic has a President personally taken and stood behind so many decisions in such little time. Even if Articles...
...troops and resources in U.S.-led, far-off wars. And the failure of the U.S. to grant visa-free travel to eastern Europeans-their fellow E.U.-members in France and Germany can enter American borders freely-is another sore point. Bush has used his eastern European visits to trumpet a "freedom agenda," correctly asserting that, with their recent experiences under communist tyranny, eastern Europeans share his goal of spreading democracy around the world. But for now, the Albanians are the only ones supporting it in the streets...