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Joining the ranks of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Thelonious Monk, nine-time Grammy Award winner Eddie Palmieri became Harvard’s latest artist in residence this week, continuing the Office of the Arts’ (OFA) year-long project, The Afro-Cuban Connection. “It’s been a tremendous honor. I had been treated with the highest degree of consideration, working with the students and [Director of Bands] Tom Everett, who is absolutely wonderful, and everyone who is involved in the preparation for the concert—and I appreciate that in my heart...
...just as innocent today as we were back then.' DAVID EVANS, Duke lacrosse player, after North Carolina attorney general Roy Cooper declared Evans and two teammates innocent of rape charges filed against them...
...announcing the project idea for the tenth challenge on the hit reality television series— an idea that would send the three-time Olympian packing.Already in its sixth season, “The Apprentice” brings together 18 business-minded contestants from a range of backgrounds to duke it out for a year-long $250,000 apprenticeship under millionaire Donald Trump.During the 2006 Winter Olympics, NBC announced that Trump would spice up the sixth season of the show by adding an Olympian to the cast. A viewer’s poll was assembled and Ruggiero, who compiled...
...fancy dating any one of the three accused? Not likely. Are the accused the most respectable college students on the planet? Probably not. To be sure, the events surrounding the Duke case were seedy. But sketchy or not, the damage of this accusation is not deserved...
...Putting aside issues of racial tensions and town-gown relations, the incident at Duke (or, in a sense, the lack of an incident) says a lot about the sensationalizing of sexual assault cases today. So many facets of society have become so hypersensitive to such matters that we seem to be losing our ability to discern between legitimate issues of sexual violence and overblown or exaggerated circumstances. To be sure, crimes of sexual assault such as rape are very serious matters. But so too is an accusation of rape...