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...Facing top-ranked Wisconsin in 2007 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, the underdog Harvard squad took the Badgers to four excruciating overtimes before finally succumbing to defeat in the 128th minute of play...
Three Scandinavian countries—Norway, Finland, and Sweden—took top honors among the 130 countries in the study, while Saudi Arabia, Chad, and Yemen were deemed the least equitable, ranking 128th, 129th, and 130th, respectively...
This year marks the 128th season of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO), making it one of the oldest and most celebrated symphonies in the United States. In celebration of the anniversary, James Levine, the BSO’s Music Director since 2003, has commissioned several works to world premiere with the BSO. On Friday afternoon, he led the orchestra through Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Symphony No. 6,” a world premiere of Leon Kirchner’s “The Forbidden,” and Robert Schumann?...
...importantly, the concert program featured the works of three great Russian composers. When the last round of applause on Wednesday night faded into indistinguishable chatter, the concertgoers left the hall assured that American-born conductor James Levine was back and had sent the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 128th season off to a rousing start.Levine ascended the podium for the first time after undergoing surgery for kidney cancer. Baton in hand, he bowed his shock of wiry gray hair to acknowledge the standing audience’s warm reception. Earlier that day, Levine told the Associated Press that...
...bigger story is that India trails that other unfurling economic giant: China finishes 34th overall, showing strength in areas like university-industry research collaboration (25th--see page 74) and national savings rate (7th) while remaining among the world's worst countries for things like the soundness of banks (128th). As for India, there is always discussion about the extent to which that country's bureaucratic, multistate, multiparty democracy handicaps it--a communist government like China's doesn't have to worry about building consensus for economic policies...