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...programs of study pursued by concentrators can be found—and are sometimes full departments, granting degrees to hundreds of students— at other universities. Simons says there are music therapy programs at several institutions across the country. And Pejkovic spends roughly 26 hours of each week bent over models and blueprints in an MIT studio. But Foster argues that there is still something unique and valuable in pursuing such areas of study at Harvard...
Zahar is not referring to Israel’s 1967 borders: historic Palestine includes the entirety of Israel. These are the words of a fanatical proto-fascist bent on Israel’s destruction. Such people do not negotiate. They can only be defeated...
...Rotters’ Club, Jonathan Coe presents a vivid and telling portrait of Birmingham, England in the 1970s. Focusing primarily on the adolescent Benjamin Trotter, whom his schoolmates jokingly call Bent Rotter—from the British slang for homosexual—the book tackles the standard issues of English high school, such as dealings with the opposite sex, parents, bullies, peers and, of course, the tribulations of wearing a uniform. But it also breaches the deeper problems of labor relations and unions, race relations, music, extra-marital affairs, the aftermath of World War II, religion, meaningless...
...pogo-ing his entire 6’6 length into the air, and the audience wasn’t long in joining him. Franti gives more to his audience than any other performer, his energy seamlessly carrying him and his band through hip hop, jazz and a strong gospel bent, evident on his last album Stay Human...
...that the state of Israel is doomed—doomed by its proximity to a people bent on its destruction...