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American listeners have a chance to judge for themselves. Last week in Los Angeles, Boulez and his crack new-music group, the Ensemble InterContemporain, began a five-city U.S. tour, bringing with them a visionary 45-minute marriage of live performers and computers called Repons (response). It is the first major work by Boulez since 1974, and Repons has propelled him back where he belongs: at the center of music's creative storm...
...officials said that they have improved services for tenants. A new policy, begun this year, allows renters to mail in housing applications. In the past, all applications had to be submitted in person. "It will allow people outside Cambridge to have an equal crack at housing," Kossan...
...that your shocked mind didn't know where to begin criticizing it? For me, Delta Force was one of those films. I've seen Chuck Norris before and although his performances were never spectacular, they were at least exciting and interesting. I watched him dodge machine gun fire and crack some skulls, and thought "This guy is good!" But when I saw him take on the entire city of Beirut and win, I could only think "This guy is stupid and amazingly lucky...
McEvoy, a junior, will get another crack at a Beanpot championship next year. But seniors Fusco, Blair, Tim Smith, Rob Ohno, Mark Benning and Greg Chalmers ended their Beanpot careers with last night's consolation victory...
Governments and business executives around the world have long complained that Japan keeps its economy essentially closed to outsiders. Last week, though, the Japanese opened the door a crack. New York-based Merrill Lynch became the first foreign company to take a seat on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and start trading. Before Merrill Lynch's team of eleven traders made their debut on the exchange floor, they gathered at the company's Tokyo office to toast the venture with whisky, beer and sake. "It is a historic time for us and Japan," said Walter Burkett, a general manager. Merrill Lynch...