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...bridging musical history, bringing the idea of a "historically informed performance" to Boston audiences since 1986 when the orchestra fell under the artistic direction of Christopher Hogwood. The objective of historically informed performance is to perform music under the conditions in which it was originally performed. Some say this concept is in direct defiance of technological musical progress, making historically informed performance controversial, as musicological controversies go. The performers all play instruments either from the Baroque and Classical eras or modern copies of those instruments. In addition to playing period instruments, the orchestra plays music exactly as it was written...
...20th century American courts to oral and written speech be applied to the World Wide Web? should communications by e-mail be protected with the same veil of privacy as are postal letters? I think not. Just a cursory look at these new information technologies reveals that the concept of speech on the Internet is quite novel. E-mail outdoes the telephone; it not only reaches into someone's private life, but it can reach 700 such people at the same time. Publishing material on the Web is far more anonymous and far-reaching than anything written in any newspaper...
Among other courses mentioned as attended by teammates are Psychology 1, Literature and Arts A-14: Chaucer, Literature and Arts B-51: First Nights, Literature and Arts C-14: The Concept of the Hero in Greek Civilization, Science B-29: Human Behavioral Biology, Science B-40: The Biology of Trees and Forests, Historical Study B-42: The American Civil War 1861-1865 and Chemistry 5: Introduction to Principles of Chemistry...
...decide what to buy); b) large numbers of vendors (it's hard to decide whom to buy it from); and c) infrequent purchases (you need lots of info that you're going to use only once, which makes it hard to deliver this info cost-effectively). The deep-interview concept, says Tomlin, is based on the belief that "the future was unlimited choice across the Web, and this was going to be an unmitigated mess...
...race is a nebulous concept, racism remains a concrete reality. Cose, author of A Nation of Strangers and The Rage of a Privileged Class and a commentator for Newsweek, confronts this most sensitive of American subjects with a mix of think-tank analysis, anecdotal journalism and cautious Utopianism. Before he is through, however, his lofty vision of a color-blind society has been modified into a 12-step program for a "race-neutral" nation...