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...April 19 the ad hoc Eliot Chamber Orchestra gave the forth annual Rainforest Concert, to Benefit the World Wildlife Fund. The small crowd was not disappointed, as the virtuosity of the two featured soloists (Joe Lin '00 and Yuki Sekino '99) proved to be irreproachable. Lin gave the fifth Mozart Violin Concerto and, due to the inferior quality of the ensemble, was forced to take everything down a notch. Tempi lagged but, on the other hand, the winds were wonderful in the andante. John Allanbrook '99, a musical jack-of-all trades, elicited a deliberate, score--fixated performance from...
...sprawling Mendelssohn work, whose first movement tried our patience, even with the score on hand. The humidity took its toll in the andante, but the prior minuet was full of subtlety and humor, and the closing presto sparkled. The four adults were a cut above even very talented Harvard chamber musicians, few of whom could afford violinist Kinloch Earle's 1630 Amati...
...Britain in 1997, the book has scooped up an assortment of prizes. Scholastic paid $105,000 for the U.S. rights, and it has so far been on the New York Times best-seller list--adult best-seller list, that is--for 15 weeks. The sequel, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (which will be out in the U.S. in June), has hit No. 1 on British best-seller lists, and some impatient U.S. fans have begun ordering copies through the British subsidiary of Amazon.com Warner Bros. has optioned the film rights to what is planned as a sequence...
Above all, Milosevic is a crafty autocrat. He relies exclusively on his own judgment, and little is done without his consent. While other institutions of state exist--a government, an elected Chamber of Citizens, ministries--he has limited their capacity to function. Only the police force works--an organization full of "his guys" that is exhausting in its myriad forms of harassment. The state is Slobodan Milosevic...
...town of 1,600 and give its two schools access to a T1 line (and Lusk a starring role in Microsoft's ads on TV). Town leaders see it as a matter of survival. "We want our kids to come back here," says Twila Barnette, who manages the county Chamber of Commerce. "But we have to be able to offer them opportunities using this new technology...