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...happened to be one of Cablevision's 3.1 million subscribers in New York, New Jersey or Connecticut on Sunday, you missed some classic TV: a closeup of Academy Award winner Mo'Nique's hairy legs on Barbara Walters' Oscar special, Kathy Ireland's freaky posture on the red carpet and Neil Patrick Harris singing about why inmates drop soap. That's because ABC cut off the signal of its New York City station to Cablevision subscribers just after midnight on Sunday morning, in a dispute over "retransmission fees," the money the cable company pays for carrying local broadcast stations...
...first piece of the evening, Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, featured the HRO concerto competition winner and internationally distinguished pianist Kenric Tam ’12. With the orchestra’s bold opening and the emergence of the lyrical second theme, beautifully introduced by flautist Irineo C. Cabreros ’13, Tam took to the stage with breathtaking expression. Though the orchestra’s complementation of his performance was not perfect at times, Tam displayed a uniquely sensitive and heart wrenching interpretation of Chopin’s first piano concerto. Especially...
Rival awards shows, which, like the Oscars, have for years forbidden the "winner" phrasing, were quick to notice the change. "I was surprised to hear that. It was kind of jolting," says John Leverence, a senior vice president of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, which gives out TV's Emmy awards. The rationale for the "award goes to ..." format is twofold: it plugs the award continuously, and it doesn't make losers feel any worse than they already do. "There's just a little bit of negative spin on saying, 'Oh yeah, this guy won this. The rest...
...executive summary of A Life Apart - the complex, occasionally overwrought but ultimately satisfying fiction debut of TIME contributor Neel Mukherjee - that pretty much fits the bill. The book was first published as Past Continuous in India, where, along with Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies, it was joint winner of the 2008 Vodafone Crossword Book Award, the country's most prominent prize for English-language writing. The newly entitled edition is slightly revised and tighter, with one chapter deleted and some structural changes near its conclusion...
Just over two minutes later, freshman defenseman Danny Biega evened the game after going five-hole on a distracted Kalemba. Four minutes after that, junior Michael Del Mauro registered the game-winner when he corralled senior Jack Christian’s blocked shot and sent the puck between the Princeton pipes...