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...director Francesca Zambello, doing her first Broadway show, can't match Julie Taymor's innovative staging in The Lion King (but then, who can - not even Taymor since then), but she has the same inventive, less-is-more, determinedly theatrical approach. Instead of wires and pulleys or complicated stage effects to simulate the undersea life, she simply equips her fishy characters with wheelies, which enable them, when they rock back on their heels, to glide across the stage with an ease that nicely approximates aquatic movement. And for the couple of times when characters actually do float - swimming...
...calendar, which will take effect in the 2009-2010 academic year, brings the University in line with many of its peers. It comes as part of an effort to increase collaboration among Harvard’s historically autonomous schools...
Under the new initiative—which takes effect this fall—Yale expects the average cost for students on financial aid to decrease by over 50 percent...
...hopeless,” “nonsense,” on the one hand; “doubtless,” “obvious,” “unquestionable,” on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, antiacademic languor at this stage as well may match the grader’s own mood: “It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists—at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous—that smile as we may at its follies...
...while they want to continue to act as gatekeepers for what ordinary Chinese can see and do online, they don't want to risk alienating the foreign investors who have bet heavily on China's Internet growth. Still, China's video-sharing sites are taking the ruling seriously. "The effect of the new regulation is still unclear," says Tudou CEO Wang, but he adds that whatever the outcome, the company would abide by the law. "The bottom line is for the website not to be shut down...