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...last name?” “He also thought the band’s name, U2, was a reference to the Cuban missile crisis,” Bono quipped. Since then, the two have cooperated closely. Bono gave Summers a shout out during U2’s concert Monday night and accepted Summers’ personal invitation last June to come to Harvard this fall. Originally, Bono’s visit yesterday was supposed to include a meeting with faculty members specializing in the issues of AIDS in Africa and an address to students at the Gordon Track...
According to Shira R. Brettman ’06, Wei-Jen Yuan ’06 is a brilliant pianist—the best at Harvard. He is also, she says, “a really belligerent drunk.” A concert pianist who has won high-level competitions and played all over the world, Yuan spent his freshman year studying at Julliard. But a visit to Harvard during the spring of that year made Yuan reconsider his options. “At Julliard I would get up at eight or nine, go practice, eat, have class, practice...
...unlikely weapon: comedy. After a rocky semester-long push to raise awareness and funds, a coalition of student groups will end their relief efforts this Saturday night with “Comedy for a Cause,” a two-hour stand-up show. Teaming up with the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) and the Undergraduate Council (UC), the Earthquake Relief Group, which Mir heads, hopes that the show will help them meet their goal of $50,000 of aid for the devastated region. “Keeping in mind that Harvard gave $150,000 for the Tsunami...
When the Wyclef Jean concert was cancelled this November, the campus was in an uproar. It was the second time in six months that the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) had failed to deliver. And not only had the HCC’s main fall offering to the campus failed to materialize, the Undergraduate Council (UC) had lost almost...
...social planning.“I think people are right in saying the council’s CLC is not necessarily constituted of people who want to plan events—it’s people who generally want to be on student government,” says Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) Chair Jack P. McCambridge ’06.All three of the UC presidential candidates have some form of social reform on their platforms. But the precise way that these reforms will be carried out remains unclear, especially after the SEC amendment was received coldly by the Dean?...