Word: aspects
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...like Keren Ann, Benjamin Biolay, Carla Bruni and Thomas Fersen are making chansons chic again. The new-old sound incorporates elements of big band, swing, old-fashioned melodrama and whispery vocals. "Many musicians have a certain attitude, saying they do one kind of music but claim a certain pop aspect as well," says Delerm, sitting in a Paris café drinking orange pressé on an unusually warm spring day. "I've always said that what I do is the traditional chanson Française, with three couplets and three refrains." Delerm's songs often set a somber tone; rain...
Jordan C. Ford ’08, who will also serve as a trial captain at Spring Clean-Up, says that the worst aspect of Dorm Crew is “having to explain to people back home that I clean bathrooms for a living...
...most frightening aspect of avian flu has always been its astonishing virulence, but the human death rate in hard-hit northern Vietnam has fallen to 34% this year, down from almost 80% for the entire country in 2004. Good news? Not if you're an epidemiologist. Investigators for the World Health Organization (WHO) have raised concerns that even though the H5N1 bird-flu virus appears to be weakening, it may be adapting better to human beings?potentially opening the door to a flu pandemic...
Another worrying aspect of the recent report is the possibility that the system Harvard will eventually employ will become in effect a quota system. Just as we are against quota systems in universities’ admissions process, we are against one in Harvard’s hiring process. A quota system would be the wrong approach because it could stigmatize minority and women hires. Even worse, it would be completely the wrong way to make decisions on tenure. Again, each individual candidate for tenure must be evaluated on what he or she will contribute to Harvard, and race...
Today's camp curricula seem tailored to another aspect of modern childhood: short attention spans. Camper Lyons is still hoping for a film career, but, according to his mother Leslye Winkelman Lyons, he's interested in "10 other things as well," so this summer he plans to move on from stunt work and attend another of Pali Overnight Adventures' programs, this one in culinary arts, run by a former chef to the Saudi royal family. As he did last summer, Lyons will spend his mornings receiving special instruction and his afternoons participating in his choice of such activities as paintball...