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Bennett, 45, has a rich background in foreign reporting, an interest he said was first piqued by a dinner in Winthrop House. While running the Harvard chapter of Amnesty International, he hosted Buenos Aires Herald Editor Robert Cox for dinner, and Cox told Bennett and his roommates about the detainment of reporters during the years of the “disappearances” in Argentina. After leaving dinner, Bennett aid, he knew he had to go to Latin America as a journalist...
Hers may be the only overt influence on his work. It's hard to hear echoes of anyone else in his playing. "There are a lot of pianists in his background--Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Bud Powell, George Shearing," says pianist Dick Hyman, a family friend and mentor. "Perhaps Bill's greatest talent is that he's been able to put all these things together and make something personal and special out of them...
...addition to his scholarly background, Lieberman said his passion for running motivated his research. While he claims he is not a very good runner, he did train for the marathon as a graduate student and looks back with nostalgia on his days living beside the Charles as a tutor in Dunster House...
...besides, no one is trying to take that name. But it’s both members of the Postal Service (band) that have enjoyed the most fruits of this attention-getting scandal: their album remains for the 90th week on Billboard’s top independents, and supplies background music for many of MTV’s shows. If this trajectory continues, and people get to conveniently purchase their music at every zip code, they might even be on MTV in the form of video artists. And we know we can’t have our indie rock heroes...
...trio of Columbia grads and their mastermind leader. Christopher Allen, Brian House and Jesse Shapins were good friends during college. Shapins took his degree in urban studies and went to Berlin to start an arts group focused on seeing cities in a new, more perceptive way. House, with a background in computer science and interactive art projects, headed to Sweden for an intermedia graduate program, while Allen set off for Brooklyn to work with Michael Counts and the arts institution called Gale Gates...