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...rhythmically precise performance, which proved to be no mean task. Although there were some initial troubles settling into a rhythmic groove, by the end of the first act, conductor and orchestra were on the same page. Particularly impressive was the sensitivity with which the players navigated the harmonically difficult passages.Perhaps the greatest asset of the production was its artistic direction under the leadership of Victoria J. Crutchfield ’10. The modern stage design and lighting provided settings with which Harvard students could easily identify: Onstad lamented the loss of his idyllic love while seated at a table covered...
...they did not have concrete data from past application pools.The spike in this year’s candidates—particularly graduate students—may reflect the position’s heightened appeal in light of limited job opportunities in the current economic climate.“In difficult economic times, when people are more concerned with maintaining financial stability, becoming a tutor looks more attractive,” said Mather House Master Sandra A. Naddaff ’75.In addition to stable housing, a limited meal plan, and in some cases a stipend, there are other advantages...
...there is no more solemn duty as President than the decision to deploy our armed forces into harm?s way." He has been personally writing letters to the families of each U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan and Iraq, hand signing them "Barack." Such letters no doubt will become more difficult to write in the months ahead, when the casualties begin to include some of those he ordered into combat...
...down, only a tyrant will do. Generations of Russian dissidents braved prison, execution and revolution to rid their nation of czars. And the Founding Fathers so feared czarlike power that they fashioned a government intricately checked and balanced. Hard to imagine Madison and Mason agreeing to put the really difficult problems in the hands of unelected superstaffers...
...estimated 1.7 million people died, including her son and daughter who were 5 and 4 when they succumbed to starvation. For Klang Sokhan, the complexities and the slow pace of the U.N.-backed tribunal proceedings do not assuage her anger - or her thirst for revenge. "The court is difficult to understand. It's too complicated. What people want is for them to die," she said of Duch and the four other Khmer Rouge leaders now in detention...