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...others, it is a chance to ambitiously push ahead and surpass previous achievements, no matter how remarkable those might have been. On the evidence of “Bitte Orca,” Dirty Projectors clearly belong to the latter camp. Having achieved a reputation as a talented but difficult to love band, the Projectors have finally settled down after nearly 10 years together and have made a thoroughly enjoyable and accessible album. Released in June, “Bitte Orca” is an album so richly textured and joyous that it succeeds as both a mainstream crossover...
...rock world; they’ve gone on tours, recorded albums, and all have plans to continue. “Momentum is building. We’re not signed but we have all the credentials,” Furst says. The musicians know that the music business is difficult, but they are all sticking to it. “I’m glad to be taking an out of left field approach to my life after Harvard,” Snyder says.And for now, even if they are unsigned, they are happy to be simply making music...
...task force that wrote the curricular legislation. “One reason is that the general education program represents the Faculty’s collective judgment about what every students ought to know, and since professors are all trained in different disciplines, this can be a difficult conversation to have.” “We are just not accustomed to thinking about education in general terms,” he continued. “It’s not our specialty.” Menand declined to comment after the speech in Lowell Lecture Hall about...
...moment I’m a little concerned that the user interface is a bit confusing, and a CS1 student would probably have a difficult time if it were deployed at the start of the semester,” wrote Leitner, who is also associate dean for Information Technology and Chief Technology Officer for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...waterboarded a prisoner 83 times off the hook? Is it right for the interrogators to be prosecuted and the real miscreants - people, like former Vice President Dick Cheney, who ordered, and still approve of, the torture - to escape unpunished? Most legal experts believe that such cases would be difficult to prosecute. But whether you favor an investigation or not, this is a presidential decision the President avoided...