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...flamboyant sociologist, who founded his eponymous party three months ago, thousands of Dutch, including many opponents, came together to demonstrate their horror at his death. More than 15,000 people lined the streets and 800 packed Rotterdam Cathedral for his funeral. Police arrested animal-rights campaigner Volkert van der Graaf on suspicion of the murder...
Leonard van der Kuijp, chair of the Sanskrit and Indian studies department, could not be reached for comment yesterday...
...Quilt arrived at Harvard through the initiative of Sarah Ann Murphy ’05 and Avra Van Der Zee ’02. Murphy works for the UHS-sponsored AIDS Education and Outreach program, which educates the Harvard community—especially first-years—about HIV/AIDS and STDs...
...metalworkers, the chemical workers' union two weeks ago agreed to a 3.3% increase. The companies, said Martin Kannegiesser, the employers' association president, have gone "to the limit of what was possible." A walkout now would represent a major embarrassment to the government of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, which had promised to cut unemployment dramatically and faces re-election in September. Zwickel, the IG Metall leader who favors three-piece suits over worker's overalls, argues that big pay raises are good for the domestic economy by increasing consumer spending. But economists worry that a strike now could wreck...
Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, written in 1909, is ultimately about farewell, as the work makes repeated use of a two-note falling motive, first used in the last movement of Das Lied von der Erde, which Mahler extends to form a three-note quotation from Beethoven’s Les Adieux piano sonata. These motivic constructions permeate every movement of the piece. Leonard Bernstein, in his 1973 Norton lectures here at Harvard, defined the symphony as a farewell to life, tonality and “our Faustian society.” There was no doubt, however, that...