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...fashioned, but at least they biodegrade. Can you put Kindles in the compost heap?All its technology and environmental politics aside though, the Kindle bothers me most because it ruins the organic experience of reading. To those who might celebrate the Greenness of the Kindle, I say: I don??t care. I don??t care that it saves trees—because a lot more die from advertising, napkins, and the farming techniques of South America. I don??t care that the Kindle’s carbon footprint is less than the thousand books...
When asked if he has any regrets from his four years at Harvard, John D. Kapusta ’09 succinctly replies “I don??t think so,” an answer unsurprising to anyone familiar with his musical endeavors. During his time at the College, Kapusta has been integral to many musical organizations; his activities have ranged from playing the trumpet in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra to sitting on the board of the Dunster House Opera. A joint Music and Literature concentrator, Kapusta is also one of the few Harvard students participating in Harvard?...
...upbeat, casual attitude. “She has an incredible, positive, practical, energetic way of being,” remarks James C. Fuller ’10, former co-director of the Harvard Ballet Company (HBC) and one of Chin’s dance partners. “I don??t actually know how she does what she does, but it certainly does not seem like she is gritting her teeth.” Chin has been dancing since she was three, and has made great strides from the first time she donned pointe shoes...
...percent decline in the fourth quarter of 2008. The index also forecasted declines of 3.1 percent in the second quarter and 2.8 percent in the third quarter of 2009. But despite the encouraging projected trend, economists said that the news was far from positive. “We don??t appear to be in free fall anymore,” said James H. Stock, the chair of Harvard’s economics department, who also helped develop the methodology behind the index a decade ago. “But we’re probably going to see continuing...
...Obscura and their repertoire for “Music of Lament” is that all the pieces were written in the period before the dawn of what we now know as classical music. “One of the things that characterizes early choral music is that they don??t get very much accompaniment,” says de Bakker. “You also get stylistic things like being polyphonic in texture. Each line is thought of as its own thing. If you’re just banging out chords on the piano it sounds sort...