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...digital duo elicited may spectator screams throughout their performance, taking the stage at approximately 7 p.m. underneath a shower of glow-sticks and inflatable beach-balls. Their set progressed with eerie clips of the band’s music videos playing in the background??at one point, band member Mike Stroud wildly screamed “I love Harvard...
...songs on our iTunes playlists. We all listen to music but know almost nothing about how it’s made.”This “modest little series,” as Coriel calls it, is designed for anyone—with or without a musical background??who wants to better understand the function of the various elements of a song. Although the first class included a fair number of aspiring student lyricists, the focus of the course will be on listening, rather than on writing.“Once you have an understanding...
...admissions office is primarily motivated to reach out to applicants who might not otherwise attend.According to Fitzsimmons, academic likely letters are often sent to students “who might not think Harvard was even in the cards.”Link, for one, has a somewhat unorthodox background??she has been homeschooled since kindergarten and received perfect scores on both the SAT and the ACT. Link spends much of her time practicing harp and won an international title in Ireland last year.DEFINITELY LIKELYAs an academic and athletic recruiting tactic, likely letters seem to do their job. Fitzsimmons...
...Inside the cemetery’s walls, the silence was so thick that it bounced off the rows of tombs stacked like chests of drawers (a particularly creepy image when you envision folded socks and underwear stuffed in there with the dead people). The wind whispered gently in the background??in Italian of course—and as I read the names chiseled into the tomb’s façades, Pavarotti sung a silent opera in my head. I roamed the aisles wondering what the hell we were doing here, until I turned a corner...
Both by virtue of who he is—an African-American, a relatively young candidate, a fresh face with an unconventional background??and because of his efforts to win voters outside the traditional Democratic primary base, Obama’s candidacy has drawn into the political process many people who have never supported a candidate before. He is able to give them, for the first time, an investment in their government and a sense that the political system is responsive to them...