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...vehicles during a special 16-day booking period that ended April 25. Dilip Chenoy, director general of the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), says the Nano is the first car in India to log more than 200,000 orders at launch. In comparison, the tiny Suzuki Alto, one of the Japanese carmaker's best-selling Indian offerings, has sold 913,000 units in the domestic market since 2000. (See the 10 things you should know about the Nano...
...Obscura is an indie pop band. Camerata Obscura is what an indie pop band might have been like back in the Renaissance. “A lot of small playing groups call themselves camerata,” explains Anna H. de Bakker ’10, who sings the alto part in the vocal ensemble, “and we were making a pun.” The program that Camerata Obscura will be presenting on Saturday May 2 at 2:30 at Adolphus Busch Hall, titled “Music of Lament,” showcases music?...
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky read six of his poems at the Harvard Advocate on Friday, accompanied by New England Conservatory senior Andrew Urbina on alto sax and by NEC professor “Rakalam” Bob Moses on percussion. The sounds of Urbina’s alto sax and Moses’ percussion were interspersed with Pinsky’s poetry. At times, the poet danced a little to the music as he read, and at other times, he remained silent for minutes as Moses and Urbina performed. “It’s all about...
...innovations is the Palo Alto-based Downtown Streets Team, created to address local business owners’ concerns over both homelessness and cleanliness in their city...
...bemoaning that gargantuan loans for law school aren't exactly easy to defray. According to the American Bar Association, the average law-school student who graduates this year will do so with a little more than $73,000 in debt. Larry Kramer, dean of Stanford Law School in Palo Alto, Calif., acknowledges there's a problem. "Something about the way the system works has to give," he says. "If you're going to defer someone for a year, there really needs to be a certain degree of loan forgiveness to ease the burden [on associates]." (See pictures of the evolution...