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...Balanced Look at the Right through the aftermath of the 2004 election. In its concentration on the Air America stint, the film inevitably covers much the same material as last year?s Left of the Dial. But it?s a frank-seeming portrait of a man who can always attract a crowd of autograph seekers, even at the Republican National Convention of 2004. (Franken takes it in stride, noting, ?In this country, celebrity trumps ideology.?) He is a kind of crucial figure, for he straddles a span that continues to shrink: the space between politicians who want to be more...
...performed at Harvard, will play Beethoven’s “Third Piano Concerto in C Minor” at 3:30 p.m. in Paine Hall, with pianist Katherine Chen ’06 accompanying.Although the performances—which are open to the public—do attract families and general audiences, everyone involved in the fair stresses that there is no room for mediocrity or pandering. “Musicians at Harvard prepare for a concert in a way that’s very spontaneous,” says Arielle A. Hansen...
...hiring since 2003, the last time this annual survey found an expected decrease, Koncz said. “With the economy improving, many companies are finally growing, resulting in increased job openings,” she added. Employers expect to raise starting salaries by 3.7 percent in order to attract enough college graduates to fill the increasing positions, according to Koncz. The director of the Office of Career Services, William Wright-Swadel, could not be reached for comment yesterday. Ivan Z. Corwin ’06 said he has already experienced the effects of this favorable job market. The math...
...RUBBISH AND REVERENCEThis recipe is likely to generate controversy as well as excitement. Any staging of Shakespeare that counts household rubbish as inspiration—“the major thematic gesture is garbage,” Lazarcheck says of this production—is bound to attract some attention, not all of it favorable, from purists. Yet all of the members of the cast and staff contacted by The Crimson emphasize their reverence for the text. “We have strived to strike a balance between maintaining the classical aspects of the play and creating a production that...
...groups, was brought in from surrounding quarters as reinforcements. Adhamiya is a safe haven for any number of anti-American organizations, which share intelligence and weapons and coordinate their activities. According to insurgent sources, the groups agreed that only sparing attacks would be launched locally so as not to attract U.S. attention. American brigade commander Col. Thomas Vail says the district's concentration of working poor made it easy for insurgents to hide. "It was easy sanctuary," he says...