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Veritas founder and president Dan J. Zaccagnino ’05 is a musician himself and has experience working for Blue Note Record Company, the Chief Executive Officer of Virgin Records and music lawyers. He says that these experiences have taught him that many perfectly talented bands lack the practical knowledge needed for industry success. Among other things, Veritas offers help to groups who might lack the resources to promote themselves...
Back Room, by Dan Milstein, directed by Kristin Baker, depicts the situation of three writers known only as A (Greg Luzitano), B (Ron Rittinger) and C (Lara Krepps). Their boss (Kevin LaVelle) instructs them through an intercom, and they write him speeches for all occassions—flirtation, commisseration, and an inexplicable situation in which he stands on an ornate chair to address some sort of audience. The scenario’s setup is delightfully bizzaire and enigmatic, but the implementation—a bunch of people stand around trying to think of things to write, occasionally interrupted...
From the very first day, it was clear that Peking University takes his chess very seriously. Upon arrival, the Harvard contingent— Daniel J. Benjamin, a third year economics grad student, Marc R. Esserman ’05, Dan E. Goodman ’07, Daniel H. Thomas ’05-06, and Albert C. Yeh ’07—was greeted with a 30-foot banner advertising their match. Because the Harvard team was formally invited by the Chinese government, they were treated as quasi-celebrities. Peking University’s president gave an opening...
...just state for the record here that I don’t believe in the ‘Curse of the Bambino’—a concept essentially invented by Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy when he first published his book of the same title about 15 years ago. The Red Sox have not won a World Series since 1918 because of absolutely horrific management. The Sox routinely built their teams with expensive slow-footed power hitters who couldn’t play the field worth a lick. Instead of investing in pitching, speed, or defense...
...These jobs would have been cut last July if it wasn’t for Dan DiMaggio and the PSLM and the protest they organized,” Meagher said...