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...sheep, pigs, cattle, mice, rabbits, horses and cats but, until this year, never a dog. Man's best friend, it turns out, is extremely difficult to duplicate. It was Woo Suk Hwang and his team at Seoul National University who finally succeeded in turning a single cell from the ear of an Afghan hound into a genetically identical puppy. Hwang was back in the news last week when he admitted lying about the source of some of the human eggs used in an earlier stem-cell experiment. Nevertheless, many scientists suspect the techniques Hwang perfected to clone a dog could...
...through: mildly threatening drums, mid-tempo minor-key keyboards and the occasional generic ’70s funk loop. The good part of this is that the album has a unified feel, and one can get lost in the drone, which is, at times, pretty easy on the ears. The bad part is that if you step back and actively try to analyze the music, it falls apart, and this unified feel turns into a monotonous, depressing, barely tolerable drone. If Mr. Cent set out to create the aural equivalent of a Queens ghetto to accompany the movie?...
...light. Arthur M. Sackler Museum. Free. (KAK)The Century of Bach and Mozart: Perspectives on Historiography, Composition, Theory and Performance. Through Dec. 23. This joint exhibition features original sheet music from the pillars of classical music, as well as an original watercolor painting by Mozart of…an ear. Houghton and Loeb Music Libraries. Free. (KAK)Paul Robeson as Othello. Through Jan. 13, 2006. As the first African-American actor to take the role of Othello in over a century, Paul Robeson won a twenty-minute standing ovation and made his 1943 Broadway show “the most...
...don’t leave long pauses of empty silences, and do not, under any circumstances, then apologize for your lack of brevity with drawn out umms and ahhs. It’s uncomfortable listening to voicemail, considering a cancer-breeding mound of metal is peeled to my ear, so don’t elongate my misery...
Nevertheless, Harvard’s administration keeps its ear to the wire, reading carefully when the papers print our name. Sustained internal and public criticism of Harvard’s social life—even the New York Times covered it—led to the creation of Pub Nights and the hiring of an administrator who once managed Cornell’s frats...