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Like an indecisive interior decorator, Germany has been mulling gaudy color schemes for its new coalition. Yet even if this week sees a final choice - pairing Christian Democrat black with Social Democratic red - the government will appear oddly colorless. Missing from any Cabinet will be the country's brightest politician, Joschka Fischer, 57, Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor since 1998. The street-fighting iconoclast who settled happily into a role at the peak of the German establishment, and whose international fame and personal popularity always seemed out of kilter with the modest size of his Green party, has retired from...
This year, the composer is Kalhor, who will be collaborating with the Ensemble to create a work entitled “Silent City.” Kelly says he looks forward both to the fact that the piece will incorporate non-Western modes, and that the group will appear before the class twice as often as the performing groups usually do during the semester. “This year, I think, will be particularly exciting,” says Kelly...
...unassumingly in a tiny cabin sequestered in the snowy woods. Inside are our musicians, escaping from the world, the audience, and their stardom. The camera peers into their cabin—as Thoreau as it is fairytale—reminding us that Interpol needs no audience. The band members appear through the slats in the cabin walls and then disappear behind soft focus. We look in on a private session...
...authors also contribute to the ongoing debate over a “great books” curriculum, although on opposite sides. DiSalvo attacks Harvard’s Western-centrism, pointing out that the limited range of Moral Reasoning classes makes it appear that “the world has known 15 people capable of moral reasoning.” DiSalvo insists that Harvard’s courses must recognize the “varying, fascinating, and beautiful (and sometimes dangerous!)” systems of morality that occur beyond the Western world, especially in terms of religious beliefs...
While the difference in BMI between those who eat fast food frequently and those who do not may appear small, Taveras said that with poor eating habits, changes in BMI can accumulate over time...