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...turmoil, Amy Tan was invited by friends in 2000 to accompany them to Burma. "Why not?" she thought. "It's a beautiful country. Great art, great culture. But then I started reading about the military junta, the human rights problems, Aung San Suu Kyi, the boycott. I could cancel the trip, but what good would that do? I could go, but would that do any good either? That led to the question of how any of us can make a difference. And how do we decide?" That led to Saving Fish from Drowning, the latest and most radically un-Tanlike...
...tied the bill’s flaws to what it called a similar failure to poll students that forced the council to cancel this month’s planned Wyclef Jean concert...
...Despite the significant disappointment of going without a fall concert, the HCC did the most prudent thing on Tuesday night by canceling the show. Although going forward with Wyclef may have provided an opportunity for the HCC to save face, their decision to cancel dramatically limited the financial charges that would have been incurred. The HCC already will lose $30,000, a liability that could have reached as high as $65,000 if planning continued unabated. The money to finance this loss would have had to materialize from some annex of the Undergraduate Council’s (UC) budget, funds...
...Harvard Concert Commission (HCC)’s Nov. 6 concert featuring Wyclef Jean was cancelled last night because of lackluster ticket sales, Undergraduate Council (UC) President Matthew J. Glazer ’06 announced at an emergency UC meeting last night. According to HCC Chairman Jack P. McCambridge ’06, the concert’s cancellation will cost the HCC between $25,000 and $30,000. As of yesterday, concert organizers had sold less than half the tickets needed to break even with only four days left before the show. “We were contractually obligated...
...going to be held to the full fee. Should [we have to cancel], we have an out. I don’t know what this number will be, but it will not be the full fee, he adde?...