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...mark Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday and the centennial of the Lincoln penny, the 1˘ coin is undergoing its first redesign in 50 years. Set to debut in 2009, the new look will still have the familiar portrait of the 16th President on the heads side, but tails will feature one of four scenes from his life. (Being considered is one of Lincoln speaking before the Illinois legislature.) That is, if the project survives. It was approved two years ago, before metal prices jumped. At last count, each penny cost 1.67˘ to produce...
...clear that the opening of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra’s 200th season was going to be incredible from the very beginning. When the esteemed James Yannatos, music director of the orchestra since 1964, first graced the stage, he triumphantly grabbed and lifted the hands of concertmaster and first-chair violinist Aaron T. Kuan ’09 and cellist Jessica J. Wang ’08. By the end of the evening, it was the audience who was lifting their hands in applause for the orchestra’s outstanding performance of Beethoven?...
...Crimson wrote. “For a century the Pierian Sodality has held its own through varying fortunes and has made valuable contributions to the study of music at Harvard.”Gassett would be happy to know the organization he helped save is now thriving, entering its 200th year.BICENTENNIALITYAs part of the festivities, James Yannatos, the music director of the HRO, is including several perennial audience favorites in the season’s program, such as Gustav Mahler’s Fifth Symphony and George Gershwin’s “An American in Paris...
...Already, every member of the National Assembly is a Chavez ally - which is largely thanks, however, to the opposition's boneheaded boycott of the last parliamentary elections - as is just about every Supreme Court justice. As a result, keeping Chavez in power until 2021 (his stated goal, the 200th anniversary of Venezuelan independence) if not longer could eventually make him, by default, a kind of "democratator," a democratically elected dictator. At the very least, says Jones, "it's bound to set off some alarms about the constructs of democratic government...
...Italy, the 200th anniversary of his birth has been a yearlong opportunity to bring to life the countless Garibaldi monuments in town piazzas. A made-for-TV movie depicted his battlefield prowess, the month-long Giro d'Italia bicycle race began in his adoptive hometown on the island of Sardinia, his famous speeches have been re-enacted from the same balconies were he once appeared before adoring crowds, and of course the obligatory commemorative stamps and coins. But Garibaldi's spirit has also returned to foreign shores, with a concert in Staten Island, New York, and celebrations in the Uruguayan...