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...played the bass pan in Desperadoes for over 40 years. Desperadoes is a 120-member steel band that was formed in the 1940s, and has won Panorama 10 times since the competition's inception. "The musical arrangements are very intricate," he says. "Every player has been practicing this tune for up to eight weeks. Just to get on that stage to perform it to all those people, you're totally into the music and transported." It's definitely one of the most ecstatic - and sweatiest - musical gigs I've ever been to. The competition kicks...
Beatrice Foxman had to drag her husband Stanley to their first spa vacation eight years ago. It just didn't seem very, well, manly, Stanley says. But after a few active yet peaceful days in the warm sun--and as many deep-tissue massages--Stanley was singing a different tune. "Men are taking a different approach to remaining healthy and looking and feeling good," he says. Now the couple from Silver Spring, Md., get to a spa as often as time permits. They have been to the spa at the Ritz-Carlton in Key Biscayne, Fla., nine times...
...Hoxby, the Freed professor of economics, said construction projects will place the most pressure on the budget—$71.6 million in expenses in 2010. But Kirby’s initiative to grow FAS to 750 professors by 2010 is stretching the budget as well, she said, to the tune of $28.5 million by the end of the decade.Nevertheless, the three committee members who presented the report on finances only offered praise of the FAS administration’s judgment in raising its spending.“The reason we have a deficit now is that we chose...
...People who are focused too much on the result are going to worry and get nervous and tighten up,” he said. “But if they’re in tune with the process of what’s going on, they’re going to end up doing much better...
...MOORE served as co-hosts of the Nobel Peace Prize concert, which airs this week in the U.S. The event, held last month in Norway, honored Nobel laureate Mohamed el-Baradei and his International Atomic Energy Agency with performances by Duran Duran and Gladys Knight. Hayek knows viewers may tune in to see her and Moore, not the honoree. "Why do we only pay attention to important issues if people from an unimportant sector--entertainment--talk about them?" the Frida star asks. "We want to be distracted from thinking...