Word: wade
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...casts light on the problem of racism. It highlights the malice of racial prejudices by portraying Julie La Verne (Lori Tishfield), the company’s original lead and Magnolia’s best friend, as a martyr who rescues Magnolia while both face terrible adversities. As director F. Wade Russo writes in his Director’s Note, the show opened on Broadway in 1927 and raised controversy in its “indictment on race relations at the time.” Russo, in effect, tends to direct much of the show’s energy...
...William Wade, the assistant coach who quietly guided the ascension of the Harvard Men’s Basketball team through his influence on the recruiting process, will be leaving the Crimson’s sidelines to join the staff at Virginia Commonwealth University, The Crimson confirmed yesterday. The young coach, who spent the last two years combing the country in search of new talent for the Crimson’s roster, was one of the architects behind last season’s recruiting class and has been instrumental in building what is expected to be an equally impressive haul next...
...That's one reason the U.S. occasionally finds itself threatening the right of women to control their reproductive decisions: Roe v. Wade was a court ruling, not the vote of an elected body, and so the vote of one new Supreme Court justice-a single person-could undo it. Unjust as it may seem, abortion rights in this country will always be tainted with Roe's undemocratic blemish. (See TIME's graphic "New Fronts in the Abortion Battle...
...plausible. The trouble with the initial draft unveiled unartfully last month by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, says Moody's Economy.com chief economist Mark Zandi, was that it was "too clever by half," creating elaborate incentives for private investors when the simple solution would be to have Uncle Sam immediately wade in, grab control, wring out the bad debt and punish the malefactors. The more complex approach attempted to avoid the stigma and huge up-front costs of "nationalizing" banks. But "the Administration hasn't sold its policy efforts well enough," Zandi says. (Read "How to Spend a Trillion Dollars...
...many winning song and dance numbers in the wonderful score. All of these big songs are treats for both the eyes and ears, accompanied by spot on tap routines and flashy set pieces designed by Janie Howland. The true delight, however, is the music under the direction of F. Wade Russo. As the production moves from hit song to hit song, the cast members’ voices remain beautiful, but the orchestra steals the show from the very start of the overture. The score has never sounded fresher or livelier.All in all, The Boston Conservatory?...