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...Brazil, beautiful. Around the same time samba schools themselves moved away from their roots in Rio's poor communities, giving awards to sambas sung by outsiders and adopting themes sponsored by multinationals. (Last year's champion won with an appeal for Latin American unity that was funded, to the tune of a reported $500,000, by Venezuela's state-oil company...
...peers loyal to the Party. He tried to fit in: he rechristened his Holy Family (1914) as Peasant Family. He painted and drew several masterpieces such as Tractor Workshop of the Putilov Iron Works (1932) and GOELRO (Lenin's Electrification Plan) (1930). But though their titles were unassailably in tune with the times, even an average party commissar could discern in them an inherent and uncomfortable truthfulness. Unable to get commissions, Filonov lived in poverty, occasionally working on contracts that other people procured for him in their names. Foreign collectors would offer up to $25,000 - an astonishing...
...passengers. Such explosively-formed penetrators (EFPs) have killed 170 U.S. troops and wounded 620 more since the spring of 2004. Their use has doubled since 2006, accelerating at the end of that year. The U.S. is usually guarded in revealing any information that might help its enemies fine-tune their strategies. But the reason for the break from standard procedure, the officials said, was the origin of the EFPs: the weapons, they claimed, are produced in Iran and smuggled into Iraq by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) elite al-Quds Force...
...after a little amusement,” Figaro sings in the opening act of Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro,” “I’ll play the tune.” True to his words, John D. Kapusta ’09 (Figaro) and the rest of the Dunster House Opera (DHO) cast play the part of lying, cheating, and mischievous lovers well, amusing the audience consistently throughout the comedic opera, and for the most part delivering on their promise to make the opera “accessible...
...Larry has always been very good at identifying problems and analyzing problems,” she said. “He made me think harder and think better.” But on the question differences between the genders, Faust sang a different tune than Summers. “I think women have the aptitude to do anything, and that includes being president of Harvard,” she said. Faust said that Bok had presided over a year of healing. She added that she was impressed by two recent committee reports to reform general education at the College...