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...last four years at Iona, he helped coach the cross-country team to a top-ten finish at NCAA Division I nationals, and the track team he served as associate head for coached focused on distances 800 meters and up because of limited scholarships and coaching staff.While his background is defined by his experience in distance running—he was a two-time All-Ivy League middle-distance runner—he does not believe that his affects his overall coaching methodology.“One of the most important things to me is having assistant coaches that...
...acoustic, softer side they developed throughout the nineties. “I Got Lost” is another standout. Written by Barlow, the song is arranged masterfully. Acoustic guitar enters first, followed by electric guitar, then tom-toms. Eventually, the bovine lowing of horsehair across violin strings permeates the background behind the high, aspirated singing of J Mascis. Again, this song isn’t the usual for Dinosaur Jr.; their next track starts up hard and heavy, as if they were embarrassed to display their vulnerable side. The album is lyrically simple. Some of the songs, such...
...Metropolitan Opera House every night as part of the Metropolitan Children’s Chorus. As a senior in high school, she and her classmates were invited to do a month-long run of the “Laramie Project” in London.Even with such a background, Birnbaum credits Harvard’s seemingly limited theater program for her development into Harvard stage royalty. “Seeing Harvard from the outside, you don’t really see the arts, which is kind of ridiculous, because there’s so much here,” says Birnbaum...
...such an endless thing to pursue,” Salazar says of the short.Although who Pidge is, or what exactly Pidge means, is unclear, the images and accompanying sounds linger even after the film ends. The hooting of an owl and the rush of wind that make up the background noise give it an eerie quality.Much of Salazar’s art has this same eeriness.“I am interested in the relationship between power and awareness, or lack of awareness, in the context of violence, and the sensation of living in a sort of fog state where...
...President in the Turkish Parliament effectively forced the democratically elected government into early elections. That raised hopes of an imminent resolution to the crisis, which was sparked by secular opposition to the nomination for the presidency of Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, a politician with an Islamist background. The Turkish lira, for example, rebounded on the news after two days of sharp losses. But that vote will not necessarily resolve the standoff between Turkey's Justice and Development Party, or AKP as it is known by its Turkish initials, and Turkey's "secular establishment," including the military. In fact...