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...show has the over-the-top rock emotionalism of the 1980s musical Chess - another great score scuttled by a problematic book. Ten years from now, I can see a cult developing around the music for Taboo the way it has around the score of Chess. Count me a charter member...
...scrappy rockers, ages 11 to 17, are students at North Star Academy, a public charter school in Newark, N.J., that had no formal music curriculum three years ago. Now it hosts a small but rollicking before-school guitar class run by Little Kids Rock, a nonprofit organization that doles out free instruments and lessons in popular music in more than 120 public schools in Newark, New York City, the San Francisco Bay Area and Memphis, Tenn. At a time when already anemic school arts budgets are dwindling, the unconventional program is thriving and enjoying a bit of fortuitous buzz...
...Charter One last week became the first bank to issue a no-fee gift card, meaning that when you buy the card, you don't get charged for processing or shipping and handling. The prepaid cards, which range in value from $25 to $500 and can be personalized with pictures of puppies or wedding rings or embossed with messages like Feliz Navidad or Just Because, can be used at any of MasterCard's 32.8 million merchant locations as well as online and for catalog orders. With no up-front fees and nearly universal acceptance, it sounds like the ultimate gift...
After four years at Harvard, students can graduate into the company of educated men and women without knowledge of Aristotle, Shakespeare, the Charter of the United Nations or even the Constitution of the United States. The present structure of Harvard’s Core Curriculum allows students to escape all of these topics and replace them with multicultural alternatives. In Historical Study A, for example, students can readily substitute for “Democracy in America and Europe” courses like “Gendered Communities: Women, Islam, and Nationalism in the Middle East and North Africa...
While too many Harvard activities require donning a suit and acting 40, two first-years are calling for a return to the days of milk and cookies and tetherball. Mark D. Lurie ’07 and Sara A. Slavin ’07 recently drew up a charter with the following goals: “To revive the lost innocent pleasures of our carefree youths. To combat the nostalgia that grows as old comes upon us. To reach intramural recognition in two years and NCAA recognition in three years.” With it, they initiated Project...