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Superstar's choreography (by James Carmichael '01) is a mixed bag. Though it is occasionally interesting and almost always active, repetition (such as the repeated use of numerous backup dancers waving their arms rhythmically behind a solo singer) tends to weaken it. In addition to its ability to entertain, dance in musical theater should be a form of expression on par with acting and music. Carmichael frequently neglects this. In this piece, much of the dancing is generic, as if it were derived from a little-known early 1980's workout video called "Sweatin' to the Messiah...
Concern over this disparity between the theory and practice of the law elicited questions from the audience. One audience member suggested that a clear delineation of the law, instead of encouraging compliance, would expose the number of violations and therefore weaken...
...creating several equally endowed "Baby Microsofts," the combined value of the resultant stock would probably end up higher than the original. Other scenarios aren't so rosy: Bill Gates could be forced to give away the source code of his core product, Windows. Or the government could simply weaken the company with a lot of regulations - sort of a permanent peacekeeping mission in Redmond. But even that might not be so bad: As the company has spent the past few years under federal scrutiny, the software market has become even more competitive, while Microsoft, with $19.7 billion in sales this...
...life cycle, a storm of a given size will stir up enough cold water to put a halt to its growth. At that point, scientists say, it has come into equilibrium. Maintaining that balance is especially hard, because if a hurricane stirs up too much cold water, it will weaken and die. This suicidal tendency no doubt helps account for the fact that Category 5 hurricanes are so rare. Indeed, only two have hit the U.S. during this century, among them the 1969 hurricane named Camille...
These battles between the Euroskeptics, who championed national sovereignty and worried that a British monetary union with Europe would weaken the county's economy, and the Europhiles, who saw an extra-national union as the way to the U.K.'s salvation, wore Major down...