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...here it is, starting with his role in the Beatles. There's a joke that Ringo isn't the world's greatest drummer - he wasn't even the greatest drummer in the Beatles. Record producer Chris Thomas, who worked with George Martin on the Beatles' White Album, begs to differ: "They were a great band and to be a great band you have to have a great drummer." "Ringo rooted everything musically," says Geldof. "He does beats when it's necessary. These songs are all over the place and seamless simultaneously. If you listen to them, what he does...
...Democratic and Republican voters in Iowa and New Hampshire are much like their counterparts around the country - no more liberal or conservative than the national average. But they have responded to the presidential candidates in ways that differ dramatically from the results reflected in national polls. Those vibrant variations give us insight into how the electorate might respond when given more exposure to and information about the candidates...
...suspect that this play has met with no opposition here because audiences come to the show with enough knowledge about the realities of Japanese culture to be able to laugh at the absurdity of such stylizations. It helps, too, that this particular production plays up the absurdity. Situations differ, however, audience to audience—one can imagine more opposition in California, where a greater proportion of the population retains a historical sensitivity from the internment camps of the previous generation. Reception might vary, too, in the portrayed countries themselves—“The Mikado” opened...
...diversity event that focused on the “interconnectedness of the human population.” The pair had sent cheek swabs to the Genographic Project, a National Geographic effort that aims to map humanity’s genetic journey through history using patterns of known mutations that differ among populations. The tests traced Castelo-Branco back to Spain, a short hop over the border from his homeland that came as no surprise. This was not the case for Sassanfar, whose lineage was traced to Northern Europe, an entirely different continent. “My family on my mother?...
...presidency by proclaiming that Summers “was telling us that people who insist that Palestinians have rights should be quiet.” Such courage to tell truth to power is the sort of behavior that Harvard has always encouraged. Yet this week, the Faculty begged to differ...