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...recording in 2007, the opera recounts the story of Greek immigrant steelworker Dionysos (played by a bearded Sting), who falls in love with an opera diva, much to the consternation of his blue-collar buddies. His stalker-like obsession nearly gets him incarcerated by the police commissioner (a hulking, black-robed Costello), but with a little supernatural intervention by the ghosts of operas past, all ends well...
Although the trends are encouraging on the whole, some of the details of the data are knottier, highlighting gaps in access to health care. Cancer incidence was highest in black men, for instance, compared with men of other races. Among women, overall incidence was highest in white women, in whom the rate of lung cancer increased, while it remained stable in other populations. When parsed by race, cancer death rates were highest in blacks and lowest in Asians and Pacific Islanders. "The decrease in death rates could have been accelerated further by ensuring that all Americans have timely access...
Chanting “Gay, straight, black, white, marriage is a civil right,” around 100 protesters marched to Harvard Square after gathering outside of Cambridge City Hall yesterday afternoon in protest to Proposition 8, a ban on same-sex marriage approved by California voters passed earlier this month. The rally in Central Square, which featured speakers including state representatives and past and present mayors of Cambridge, emphasized the city’s example in legalizing gay marriage and advocated spreading the “sweet wine of freedom” across the country. Cambridge was the first...
...where she’s coming from,” Fish said. But some Harvard students said they do not agree with their siblings’ assessments of Harvard’s lack of social life. “I thoroughly disagree,” said Phoebe H. Johnson-Black ’10, whose brother, Harvey A. Johnson-Black, is a freshman at Yale. “Harvey and I had a little debate about this, this morning. I think we have a great time here.” For their part, Harvard students said that their university?...
...analysis called the campaign's invocations of the once violent 1960s radical Ayers "racially tinged" because they evoked the word terrorist. McCain was also accused of playing on race for running an ad that highlighted Obama's relationship with Franklin Raines, a former executive at Fannie Mae who is black. Says Davis: "I never saw anybody play the race card but the Obama campaign...