The story of Manon Lescaut is the classic saga of a young woman torn between love and money. It has inspired several operas and the Met returned its production of Massenet's lovely and popular Manon to the stage last night with a sterling cast led by Diana Damrau in the title role and Vittorio Grigolo as her one true love, Chevalier des Grieux.
Damrau, known mostly for her coloratura and...
Why It's So Important That Women Empower Other Women
Women's empowerment starts with how women treat other women.
Created by SheKnows Media and BlogHer, a new video features a few of the women from this year's BlogHer15 conference advisory board discussing the importance of women supporting one another in a collective effort to educate and empower female readers and content consumers.
BlogHer15 is an annual conference created in partnership...
A Brief History Of World Leaders Greeting A Japanese Robot
German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in Japan on Monday for a two-day visit during which she met with Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe and Emperor Akihito. One of the first stops in Merkel's schedule, however, was the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, where she was greeted by a small, dancing robot named ASIMO.
Merkel is just the latest in a long list of heads of...
Why Germany Shouldn't Take Its Economic Success for Granted
FRANKFURT -- Germany has weathered the financial crisis much better than most of its neighbors. Regarded as the sick man of Europe as recently as 1999, today the country boasts the continent's strongest economy, accounting for roughly a quarter of its exports. Its unemployment rate, at just below 5 percent, is half the European average. The federal budget is balanced for the first time in...
3,000 Skeletons To Be Dug Up From Old Burial Ground In London
The big dig has begun at an old burial ground in London.
To make way for new construction near the city's Liverpool Street rail station, archaeologists have started excavating an estimated 3,000 historic skeletons now interred there on the site of the Bedlam burial ground.
The burial ground was in use from 1569 through at least 1738 and is considered the most archaeologically...
Hillary Clinton Slams Senate Republican Letter To Iran
WASHINGTON -- Hillary Clinton on Tuesday addressed the growing controversy over a letter that Senate Republicans wrote to Iranian leaders, which critics are calling a partisan move to scuttle White House negotiations with a foreign government.
"A recent letter from Republican senators was out of step with the best traditions of American leadership, and one has to ask, what was the purpose...
TV Networks Wouldn't Show Clinton's Speech On Women. Here It Is.
WASHINGTON -- On Tuesday, likely Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton spoke at a United Nations conference on women. But if you were watching cable TV's coverage of the speech, you wouldn't know what exactly she said.
That's because the big three cable news channels focused on the controversy over Clinton's decision to use a private email account to conduct government business...
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