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Last Friday, I was throwing the [Harvard] Carnival. Fridays are my most busy work night because people are out and about. So I’m either throwing an event or if I don’t have work, usually playing with my band at a concert. Or I’ll just be around the Square hanging...
...Cluj-Napoca, a small city in rural Transylvania, a construction site teems with laborers sawing wood, hammering nails and measuring angles. The tools are basic and the building plans simple, but the workers[an error occurred while processing this directive] are not what you might expect; it's a band of executives hailing from corporate heavies Whirlpool and Ikea, who've traveled to Romania from Italy and Sweden. The well-heeled workforce comes courtesy of Habitat for Humanity, a 30-year-old American-based charity that recruits volunteers to address the problem of poor housing in close to 100 countries...
...heard the story: the Netroots, the Democratic Party's equivalent of a punk garage band--edgy, loud and antiauthoritarian--are suddenly on the verge of the big time. The gang of liberal bloggers and online activists who helped raise millions of dollars for Howard Dean's presidential campaign two years ago are now said to be Democratic kingmakers. Last month in Connecticut, they fanned anti-incumbent and antiwar flames and were widely credited with the primary defeat of Senator Joe Lieberman, leading him to run as an independent. After they relentlessly derided Senator Hillary Clinton as calculating, overly cautious...
...changes wrought by Ward’s harmonica playing, as well as the presence of a full band (perhaps too full, with two drummers/percussionists) both live and on “Post-War,” didn’t unravel the intimacy of his words with overstuffed sound. While the solid backbeat dissolved the illusion that Ward’s songs were quiet confessions (except for the beautiful “I’ll Be Yr Bird,” which Ward performed in the encore before his band joined him), this did less to depersonalize the songs...
...Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) announced last night that the band will participate in a question-and-answer session on Saturday, Sept. 30, at 1 p.m. in Lowell Lecture Hall...