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...clarify common misconceptions about Mormons, the Harvard Latter-Day Saint Student Association held a “Meet the Mormons Q&A” panel yesterday during which they encouraged students to ask questions about the church. The event began with two brief presentations by Kenneth I. Brewer ’11 and Lindsey R. Brinton ’12, who talked about the history of church and current theological doctrines, followed by questions from the audience. When asked about the issue of polygamy in an interview before the event, LDSSA Vice-President Morgan T. Pope...
...obligatory love triangle as well as the requisite parking garage chase scene that we’ve seen so many times before. The movie bears a passing resemblance to other classic political thrillers such as “The Manchurian Candidate” and “The Pelican Brief,” but it still achieves a number of effective plot twists.“State of Play” does make a slight attempt to situate itself in the current political climate. Characters throw phrases around such as “privatization of homeland security...
...none of them cartoons. The ambitious new nature film called Earth chronicles a year in the life of the planet, opening in the dead of winter at the Arctic, with a mother polar bear peeking her snout out of the snow, and ending at the opposite pole, in the brief Antarctic summer amid a dance of humpback whales...
...global total reached a record high. In the first quarter of 2009, the bureau reported that the number of pirate attacks around the world nearly doubled, to 102 incidents, compared with the same period last year; only one of them occurred in the Strait of Malacca. (Read a brief history of pirates...
...thoughtful delivery from the first notes, eking out tremendous expression from the piece’s idiosyncratic language. Yearning and singing through the cello, he swayed at times into a consonant orchestral sound before erupting out of it. He displayed a mastery of the virtuosic music, especially in a brief cadenza near the end of the movement.The second movement, an Andante, seemed like it was always reaching for something, and as in the first, Koh shifted elegantly from introversion to extroversion. Impelled by a pizzicato theme in the cello at the beginning, the third movement continued Yannatos’ unusual...