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...while greedily claiming the moral high ground. The ivory-tower activist only need reach for his keyboard, or, if he feels adventurous that day, grab a placard and march in the square, to soothe his weary conscience worn down by the moral baggage of upper-middle-class luxury. Common sense approved by custom once deemed the best goods to be those most difficult to attain—the postmodern Academy has, thanks to the e-mail petition (located at www.UBSpetition.org, if you are curious), overthrown that logic.But this activism’s meddling morality, for all of its ease, most...
...miles of a very dense city, you have to balance out the interests involved here,” he said. “When you do live in a city that’s so dense and so much of your open space is shared in common...there’s a greater need for some space where you can get a respite from the intensity of urban living.” “Nobody’s going to get 100 percent of what they want and nor are they going to be 100 percent happy with...
...ways to embellish the written music.”Of course, the way that the music is written is not the only thing that has changed. As always, the Harvard Early Music Society’s production will feature an entire spectrum of unusual instruments, ranging from the relatively common harpsichord (they have two, actually) to the improbable-seeming overgrown lute known as the theorbo. Baroque trumpets, baroque oboes (or “haut-boys”), and baroque bows for string instruments are also present in the ensemble.“There’s this whole sound vocabulary...
...haunted by secrets, but in a good way.” Every Sunday, Warren posts 20 secrets to the blog, which has received over 100 million hits to date. On the blog, Warren likes to display both surprising secrets and those that are representative of secrets he commonly receives. Warren does not archive the secrets on the blog, displaying only the 20 current ones in order to demonstrate “the fleeting nature that secrets can have,” he said. To preserve the secrets, every single one of which Warren keeps, he has compiled four books. According...
Last June, Hillary Clinton's campaign gave back $7,000 to Chinese restaurant workers who contributed $1,000 apiece for a political fund-raiser. It was her campaign's effort to stop a common campaign-finance abuse: the use of proxies by well-heeled donors trying to get around the $1,000 limit on campaign contributions. But however well intentioned, the effort points up the difficulty all of the presidential campaigns have in trying to police their political contributions...