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...which Sung executed with animation and drive.If any piece could have pulled the BSO out of a string of three mediocre performances in one night, it was Hungarian composer Bela Bartok’s Suite from “The Miraculous Mandarin,” a musical vortex of discordant chords and pointed rhythms that the BSO executed with gripping prowess. The orchestra came out in full force, with the string section effortlessly running up and down scales in augmented octaves to the backdrop of frenetic trombone glissandos. The jazzy interlude in the middle of the suite allowed individual soloists...

Author: By Monica S. Liu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BSO Strikes Out Under Sung | 4/26/2009 | See Source »

China cannot escape the vortex of the Japanese and Western economies going through their worst contraction is years. The big Asian economy is not that isolated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble in China As GDP Slows | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

PAUL MCCARTNEY and RINGO STARR reunite at DAVID LYNCH concert, then vanish into mysterious vortex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...grinding to a halt. Supposedly, the recession means free trade is down, the worldwide gambit is over, and open markets lost: Protectionism is up, isolation is on the onset, interventionist states won, and we’re spiraling into a 1930s-style “save-yourself” vortex. In the past few weeks, two articles in the most popular globalization-advocacy journal—The Economist—have specifically bemoaned the coming tide of “global disintegration” and the specter of worldwide “economic nationalism...

Author: By Raúl A. Carrillo | Title: The Return of Economic Nationalism? | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...convened after Sarkozy made jingoistic noises last month about pulling French car-making operations out of eastern Europe. The beleaguered eastern members fear 'Old Europe' is on a wayward drift from the E.U.'s core principles of a single market, which could leave 'New Europe' abandoned in the economic vortex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As the Crisis Bites, Splits Open Up in Europe | 3/2/2009 | See Source »

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