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...could for the people he represented, but he was strong-headed,” LaBua recalled yesterday. McCombe also battled Harvard in court, when he took up the cause of a fellow security guard, Viatcheslav Abramian. Abramian complained he was discriminated against as a result of his Russian background. His complaints were dismissed in an internal investigation. In 1997, McCombe testified in the case, in which a Superior Court jury subsequently awarded Abramian $2.9 million. McCombe served as one of the last guards to be a direct employee of the University. In 2004, the University centralized its security systems under...
...Lincoln Portrait”, written after Pearl Harbor was attacked, resonates with patriotism. The piece includes quotes from Abraham Lincoln’s writings that will be narrated by Dean of Harvard College Benedict H. Gross ’71 as Copland’s music plays in the background. Wei-Jen Yuan ’06, the winner of this year’s HRO Concerto Competition, will be playing Tchaikovsky’s “Piano Concerto No. 1.” Many of the HRO members agree that the audience will be dazzled with Yuan?...
...umbrella had hardly put me in the best of moods—I couldn’t help smiling at Burkle’s enthusiasm, candor, and sense of humor once we started to talk. The senior actor and director sat down with the Crimson to discuss his background, current projects, and plans for the future...
...different story. Hype Williams, known for his work on the film “Belly,” (which runs like an exceedingly long music video), really captures Kanye’s overstated elegance. Pin-up girls and West’s violent gyrations careen around powerful background colors, beautiful women, and some genuinely nice shots of Jamie Foxx (see left for an example). It won’t stay with you forever, but it also won’t leave you feeling like you raised a child for 18 years but then found out it wasn?...
...Other students’ projects grew out of intense personal experience. Chloe L. Stinetorf ’06 drew on the trauma her family experienced when her brother toured Iraq with the Marines, creating dozens of chilling prints where content and color blend in perfect harmony. In the background of some prints are maps of the Middle East; in others, astronomical maps of constellations which resemble bombing targets. Bright, iconic images and words, such as American flags, guns, cannons, excerpts of ee cummings’ poetry, and the words “Semper Fidelis” (“always...