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Hardly a conventional subject for an opera, but then Steve Reich's new music-theater piece, The Cave, which premiered last week at the Vienna Festival, is hardly a conventional opera. Based on videotaped interviews with Jews and Muslims in Jerusalem, and with Americans in New York City and Austin, Texas, it is a three-act, multimedia, audiovisual collaboration between the pioneering minimalist composer and his wife, the video artist Beryl Korot. By turns fascinating and frustrating, The Cave, which will have other performances this year in Berlin, Amsterdam, London, Brooklyn, Paris and Brussels, stands...
...Austin So's letter, "Attack the Real Problems, Not Just the SAT" (Crimson, May 21), rejected best bias as an adequate explanation for the fact that SAT scores of African American students are, on average, lower than those of white students. Instead, he attributes an imaginary lack of "respect for education" to the African-American students community. This view is insulting representing an unfounded critique of African-American Cultural values. It is also dangerous. So exemplifies the backward thinking that has plunged the American public school system into its current situation...
...very supportive of Dean Epps," said Austin W. So '96, conference chair of AAA and political chair of the Korean Students Association. "He's very caring about students...
...jury in Austin, Texas, convicted rapist Joel Valdez, who claimed his victim had consented to "making love" because she asked him to put on a condom. The woman said her request was driven by a fear of AIDS. Valdez was sentenced to 40 years...
...situation where Karel would fire Vince because of nepotism," said Austin Lin, a non-resident tutor who resigned two weeks ago. "Whoever is in charge of enforcing University policy should take action...