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...concert was a celebration of Music Director Bolle’s 70th birthday and was presented in collaboration with Harvard College’s Music department. In his notes on the concert, Bolle said that it “represents for me the ne plus ultra of the kind of programming I have striven to achieve in the 35 seasons of Monadnock music.” He certainly accomplished that task and deserves much praise for the committed performance he and the orchestra gave of Carter’s masterpiece, as well as the orchestra’s devotion...
...perhaps no mere coincidence that as the rest of the country prepares to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, Summers will decide whether or not to take the necessary steps to ensure that Harvard’s low-wage service workers, overwhelmingly people of color and immigrants, will never be left to work for poverty wages in the future. Just days before Harvard’s janitors officially launch contract negotiations, Summers will have the opportunity to do King’s memory proud. A real commitment to the dignity of the many faces of color...
President Clinton's dog Buddy, struck and killed by a car last week, was immortalized by artist Jamie Wyeth in a 200th birthday portrait of the White House, which he painted last year. Wyeth asked to sketch sunrise on the White House from the South Lawn. After a tense encounter with security personnel, who weren't prepared for his 5 a.m. visit, Wyeth was given a secure area under a tree from which to sketch what turned out to be a glorious sunrise that cast a golden glow over the mansion. As he feverishly sketched, the back door...
Last spring, after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, the Classics department honored Segal and read from his work at a bittersweet 65th birthday party which Segal attended...
...work among the poor, he intervenes in politics only during times of crisis?most notably ending the bloodshed of the May 1992 democracy uprising. He prefers giving advice to Premiers in private. So, as Thaksin and his ministers sat in the Dusidalai Throne Hall awaiting the King's annual birthday address to the nation, they were expecting the usual sermon on development peppered with parables and gentle jibes. Instead, Bhumibol, 74, warned Thailand was heading for catastrophe, and lambasted its political class for their arrogance, intolerance and double standards. "The Prime Minister has a long face now after I mentioned...