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...York University no less. Before his nation's independence, he served as a crusading human-rights lawyer in Indonesia and helped draft East Timor's constitution. Yet today Soares doesn't practice law at home. Like most people of the post-'75 generation, Soares was educated in Indonesian and English. The country's courts, however, operate in Portuguese. Indeed, the language obstacle is so great that every single one of East Timor's judges, prosecutors and public defenders failed a competency evaluation in 2005. While they undergo 212 years of linguistic training, the courts are being run by a dwindling...
...warms listeners up to the vibe of the following tracks. This is followed by a trademark rolling piano line in the album’s first single “Once Upon a Time,” which is nestled between chiming synths and the singers’ accented English vocals. “One Hell of a Party” features a mandolin and vocals by Jarvis Cocker, the frontman of former Britpop band Pulp. The track underscores the decidedly un-boisterous nature of the album. Later, “Mayfair Song” follows with piano chords...
...produced the show. Music Director Channing Yu ’93 and Stage Director Edward Eaton chose to remain faithful to the work’s original form, staging it with full orchestral accompaniment and keeping Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s libretto in German, albeit with English subtitles. The comic opera’s plot—full of surprise, deception, and intrigue—tells the story of the Marschallin Marie Therese, Princess von Werdenberg, and her lover Octavian. The opera begins when the Marschallin’s country cousin, the Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau, visits...
...Andrew Barrow Malone ’07, a history and literature concentrator taking McCarthy’s course, points out that he can help people while learning in a nontraditional method. “I plan on analyzing texts the same way that I would in an English class, but then to go a step further and ask, ‘Is this a suitable text for high school?’ To do that successfully you’ve got to think about the text as critically as you would if you were writing a paper. It?...
Facebook is ubiquitous, but perhaps not universal. Three Harvard students have developed a new social networking site, Vostu.com, that they say will fill a void left by online communities in which English is the lingua franca. The Spanish-language interface, publicly launched at the end of February, is intended to help connect the Latin American community, according to founders Joshua Kushner ’08, Daniel E. Kafie ’05, and Harvard Business School student Mario T. Schlosser. Even though membership is currently by invitation only, Vostu.com has accrued over 600 members—mostly from Argentina, Peru...