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...always got along. About five years ago, Maher shot Shawkat in the stomach during a family dispute. Assad played the conciliator and eventually brought Shawkat, who is married to Assad's sister, into the family's ruling troika. Since then Maher and Shawkat have become a feared and shadowy duo, their lives bound together by a shared aversion to publicity and a willingness to use violence to settle scores. "The best way to understand Syria," says a veteran foreign-policy hand in Washington, "is to check out the season collection of The Sopranos...
...sixth overall, even though it wasn’t first or second, was still a very strong showing.” Johnson and Lynch bested the A-division competition with a total score of 104, earning 22 points of breathing room ahead of second-place finisher Maryland. The duo finished in the top five in 11 out of the 18 total races, including one first-place performance. The A-division’s finish was especially strong, as Lynch and Johnson placed in the top four in each of the final five races of the competition...
...Jones ’07 estimated that the production drew almost 4,000 to two performances on Friday and Saturday nights, raising between $35,000 and $40,000. The production has yielded a total of over $2.2 million in donations since 1970. The event featured Russian husband- wife duo and Olympic gold medalists Ilia Kulik and Ekaterina Gordeeva. The crowd of Harvard students, alumni, and Jimmy Fund cancer patients cheered loudly for each performer. Manuel Rincon-Cruz ’09 said he enjoyed every moment as he saw the Evening of Champions for the first time...
...problems, it seems sure to help bands form. It’s a common story on campus: musicians want to join a band, but cannot find others with the same musical interests. A typical example is Freefall, a pop-rock quintet that for a time was stalled at a duo. According to vocalist and guitarist Kevin M. Bombino ’08, the search for a rhythm section was exhausting. “We used Facebook and postered to find musicians and that got us a bass and a keyboard.” The drummer proved more elusive...
...just put iTunes on party shuffle and see what comes up: obscure musicals (“Blood Brothers”), Patsy Cline, the Yonder Mountain String Band, a Brazilian band called Skank, the Pillows, the Notre Dame Glee Club, the fabulousness that is 80s pop, a gay country duo called Y’ALL... My aunt and uncle are musicians (my aunt Kristi Rose started out in the New York rockabilly scene in the mid-80s; my uncle Fats Kaplin plays fiddle, guitar, banjo, pedal steel guitar, accordion) and I think their work is amazing...