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Avant-garde German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen liked to say he was born on a planet near the star Sirius, and for fans of his abstract, complex music, it was a plausible theory. He made his name in the 1950s as a pioneer of electronic sound and went on to compose such big, vivid pieces as Light, a 29-hour, seven-part opera that took him 30 years to finish, and Groups, played by three separate orchestral ensembles at once. An influence on musicians from John Lennon to Björk, Stockhausen made news in 2001 for a comment suggesting that...
...year Allston master plan, which envisioned the relocation of the three Quad Houses, the School of Public Health, and the Graduate School of Education to the other side of the Charles River. The report was submitted in conjunction with more detailed plans for the 589,000-square-foot science complex, which is slated to house the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and an art center which would showcase the University’s contemporary and modern art collection.But after a series of contentious meetings between Harvard officials and Allston residents, the University decided to focus on the science complex...
...deaf was one of the deciding factors in Power’s decision to come to Harvard. “I have taken a lot of science classes as an MCB concentrator, and the fact that the interpreting services at Harvard allow me to enroll in classes with such complex terminology is truly a testament to how exceptional the services are at Harvard,” said Powers in an e-mailed statement. The greatest challenge for interpreters, according to Kellie L. Stewart, one of Powers’s interpreters, is the pace of the person speaking. Interpreters run into...
Viewed from Europe, Tuesday's deadly bombings of government and United Nations buildings in Algiers offers a prime example of how the threat of terror is rising even as it becomes more complex. Though its strikes have thus far been limited to Algerian soil, the group claiming responsibility for the strikes - al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) - has signaled its desire to internationalize its jihad. With Tuesday's violence marking the first time AQIM has struck foreign targets in a major attack in Algeria, security officials fear it signals a significant broadening of the group's terror action that will...
Allston residents said last night that Harvard’s proposal for community benefits was insufficient and demanded that the University commit to providing the neighborhood with a community school and health center before the construction of its multi-building science complex commences this spring...