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...Yardfest performance of today’s hottest band: Third Eye Blind. Move over, Oasis; 3EB is here to stay. With bouncy but thoughtful gems like “Semi-Charmed Life” and “Jumper,” the San Francisco quartet has struck a chord with college students riding high: Clinton is president, “Ally McBeal” is on at nine, and things are looking up for the twenty-first century. Why shouldn’t we smile? The cloning of Dolly the sheep has at last muted the virulent debate over...
...We’re encouraged that people will take up that offer,” Kirk says. LUCIE AS FRESHMAN While the play takes place in poor, rural early 20th century France, Kirk is confident that the universality of the play’s greater themes will strike a chord of recognition in all audience members. And the Lucie that Holding plays is not so far removed from Harvard after all. “With Lucie, I tap into that bit of me who sometimes feels socially awkward,” Holding says. “In a way, she?...
...says Bayrou. "It's very dangerous to suggest that the national identity is under threat." At the rally in Evreux, Bayrou wins cheers when he declares that the best approach to immigration would be a stronger development policy for Africa and "introducing morality into international trade." This strikes a chord with social worker Christine Levasseur, who once voted for the left but is disenchanted with Royal. "Everything about her campaign that was fresh has completely disappeared," she says. "We want to believe that Bayrou really is different...
...active learning.” His warning against the “large podium, small chair” mode of teaching, which he deemed “about the worst way to convey information so that it will be remembered and acted on,” struck a chord with some Tufts students in attendance. “I think that the active learning piece was the key,” said Tufts Student Body President Mitch Robinson. “He hit it right on the head with that.” Some students objected that the Harvard professor?...
...It’s true: the blues is not a form conducive to exaggerated structural shifts, revolutionary melodies, or stunning technical perfection; my jazz instructor loved to make fun of my penchant for blues-based pentatonic scales and predictable I-IV-V chord progressions. But this elegant simplicity and emotional purity is the very essence and charm of the genre and, I hope, its ticket back into the business. Just maybe not through “Black Snake Moan...