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...produce plays and movies, some of which he writes and acts in, for Silicon Valley's large South Asian population. A first novel published in India sank like a samosa, but The Peacock Throne is on several hot-new-books lists in the U.K. A French edition will appear next year, and a U.S. sale is imminent. "I'm now working on a fictionalized biography of my great-grandfather, a merchant from Bihar who journeyed to East Bengal and accumulated a large family and great wealth," says the indefatigable Saraf. You don't have to be a rocket scientist...
...destination for both tourists and native aficionados. Oslo is currently completing its own dramatic hall, located at the edge of a fjord, that promises a pristine acoustic environment. The Palau is also taking risks on unusual performances. Classic crowd-pleasers like Don Giovanni and Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle appear in new garb: La Fura dels Baus, the avant-garde theater troupe best known for its choreography of the Barcelona Olympic Games' opening ceremonies, is staging the latter. Inventive new works are being set as well: Milos Forman, for example, is building Well-Paid Walk - what he calls a jazz...
...have to accept. It's government policy.'' Her main goals now were to punish the murderers of her daughter and to get to the U.S., where two of her sisters had lived since the 1940s. At a key point in Chinese-U.S. trade talks, when China wanted to appear liberal-minded, Cheng seized the opportunity to apply for a passport -- and got it. She also received unofficial word that her daughter had been abducted and beaten to death by the Red Guards, who presumably were trying to force her to denounce her mother, and that the government had arrested...
Members of the presidential search committee met yesterday afternoon with Harvard’s alumni overseers. But after a closed-doors session inside Loeb House, it appeared last night that the University was not ready to name a permanent successor to Lawrence H. Summers.In recent days, the committee had been most seriously considering Radcliffe Institute Dean Drew Gilpin Faust for the presidency, according to two sources familiar with the search committee’s activities. If the committee has agreed on a president, Faust would likely be the search panel’s choice, according to the two individuals...
...effort to cater to the broad interests of Harvard’s students, last spring, the Faculty approved secondary fields, optional programs of four to six half-year courses that will appear on a student’s transcript (but not diploma) after graduation. The EPC, empowered to implement these mini-concentrations, last week announced 24 secondary fields had been approved for the spring term. They will apply retroactively so that the Class of 2007 will be able to have secondary fields on their transcripts...