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...Hernquist said. “The more sensitive a telescope, the farther back in time we can look.” Another inductee, Meyer Professor of Middle Eastern History Roger Owen is working on a book that will compare Middle Eastern globalization at the end of the 19th and 20th centuries. Owen was humble about his work. “Scientists are inventing things,” he said. “Historians are just writing books...
...evening’s plucky all-Ravel program featured four works by the 20th-century French composer. It got off to an energetic start with “Alborada del gracioso,” a brief selection whose title suggests the early morning serenade of a jester. The performance took full advantage of Ravel’s Impressionistic score, leaping into noisy climaxes and slipping suddenly into murky, bass-dominated string arrangements. Spirited castanets set off the piece’s Iberian influences, and a patient bassoon solo broke through the enthusiastic cacophony of metrical shifts and rhythmic switches...
...tout Chicago followed the weekend of partying and the Sunday night feast that marked the 20th anniversary of Trotter's restaurant - all highlighted by an A-list of chefs who strutted in, treated like gods, to cook in his kitchen. Indeed, they were worshiped by the 80 or so foodies able to lay down $5,000 a head for a round of tastebud-zapping dishes by Thomas Keller (the French Laundry in Napa Valley and Per Se in New York City), Heston Blumenthal (The Fat Duck in Berkshire, England), Ferran Adria (El Bulli, outside Barcelona) and Tetsuya Wakuda (Tetsuya...
...staging one of their own: in the 1970s they began storming into the workforce, making it harder for men to shirk child care. What's more, they showed their sons that it's possible to both work and parent. Economic forces were at work as well: for the entire 20th century, every successive generation of American men could expect to do better financially than their dads--that is, until Generation X. According to a study by the Pew Charitable Trusts, the median income for a man in his 30s in 2004 was 12% lower than it was in 1974, once...
...Massachusetts Governor Romney, not because of anything that he is doing now, but because of what he has the potential to do in the new year. Starting in 2008, candidates will be required to file finance reports monthly, but those accountings are not due at the FEC until the 20th of the following month. What his opponents expect and fear is that Romney will write himself a huge check shortly after the beginning of the new year to provide himself a massive infusion of funds for the early round of primaries. Not until those contests are all over...