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...differentiate between helping the sick or impoverished and helping those in war-torn countries? How do you decide who to help? -Adam Burnham, Austin, TX I think any help is helpful. I don't think you have to beat yourself up too much about 'who do I help?' and 'where do I start?". I think the desire to help and start is a wonderful thing...
...hearing it just once, even if it was years ago. The 27-year-old pianist is blind and severely learning disabled; he can't tie his own shoelaces or butter a piece of bread. Yet his musical gifts appear almost unlimited. With rehearsals over, Paravicini and his longtime teacher Adam Ockelford go into a quiet room to listen to a recording of the version of Bumblebee that the orchestra has learned. A few hours later, in front of 400 people, Paravicini and the Emerald Ensemble charge through a dizzying performance of the music he has just listened to, perfectly...
...songwriter Adam Schlesinger says there's a write-what-you-know element here: he and co-scribe Chris Collingwood spent years as temps, doing legal transcription and computer programming, respectively. "Work is just what most people do," he says. "Including us." Members of FOW don't lionize work, but they don't condemn it either. Rock bands traditionally write about white-collar work as corrupt (the Beatles' Taxman) or for suckers (Bachman-Turner Overdrive's Takin' Care of Business). FOW write about it the way country and folk singers write about manual labor: as a fact of life. Besides, Schlesinger...
...Winthrop army raised a white flag at 2:30 p.m., but the time when the twelve Houses took prisoners is nothing more than a memory now, more than a week into the wildly well-attended war that engulfed the Harvard campus without warning. College Events Board (CEB) Chair S. Adam Goldenberg ’08 and Campus Life Fellow John T. Drake ’06, who planned the activity as some sort of war game, were both killed when an Adams group calling themselves “The Black Hand” threw hand grenades into their closed...
...Board (CEB) had no problem choosing the duo, completed by Hammel’s wife Kori Gardner on vocals and keyboards. “They play great music and a lot of people are really in love with them,” said CEB Chair and Crimson columnist S. Adam Goldenberg...