Another scheme, to beef up education programmes in opera and ballet and allow children to learn about writing, performing, making sets and marketing, will also please a government that is eager to see Covent Garden broaden its appeal.

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Too often, I think, all the emphasis is on making everything big and expensive and pumping all those dollars into sets and wardrobe and somehow the writing plays second or third or fourth fiddle.

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These are life skills, not just academic skills, and it is the quality of writing and thinking that separates employees with identical technical skill sets.

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Knowing how to clearly articulate your own ideas either verbally or in writing is one of the most important and under-valued skill sets.

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The real magic happens in the cloud-based software, which sets up the device and allows for infinite possibilities without ever writing a single line of code.

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To Olson's argument, Tribe replied that the Florida justices weren't writing new code but merely interpreting conflicting Florida statutes. (One sets a tight deadline for certification and the other allows hand recounts, which can take a long time.) And anyway, Tribe argued in his typically agile brief, the electoral-count law simply offers incentives to states who follow its provisions--but doesn't punish them if they don't.

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