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...syndicate, the Camorra, which has long infiltrated the waste-disposal business. The government's failure to confront the situation erupted in December, and the burning garbage may have tainted more than Italy's image. The trash emergency may be linked to elevated toxin levels in the Naples region's famous buffalo-milk mozzarella. Italian health officials have recently been forced to check hundreds of factories that produce the cheese after South Korea and Japan temporarily banned imports and the E.U. threatened to do the same...
...task of playing it. In the first movement, Charlotte S. Austin ’11 commanded the stage with a rich and nuanced solo. The orchestra traipsed along through the movement, maneuvering through the quirky piece and making evident the ironic, twisted elegance for which Stravinsky is famous. The piece’s sudden contrasts were deftly delivered as well, as the players transitioned from elegance to a forceful march to a quiet and technically difficult suspension of harmonics in the lower strings. The ensemble’s continued internal communication allowed them to stay in sync for the entire...
...there's at least one Thai gourmet who may wish he'd stayed away from street food and stuck with pricier fare. Thailand's recently elected Prime Minister, Samak Sundaravej, boasts a famous palate; before he assumed the P.M. post, Samak hosted his own TV cooking show. But during a trip to neighboring Laos earlier this week, Samak sampled a chili-paste-and-fermented-fish concoction at a local market, and found to his considerable discomfort that the dish disagreed with him. On April 1 - and, no, this was no April Fool's joke - local newspapers put coverage...
...that Undergraduate Council President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 would be a part of the new committee to review the Administrative Board, the College’s draconian disciplinary body. A day before, University Hall announced a new “Dowling Committee,” the famous group that formed the Undergraduate Council and reformed student-faculty committees 25 years ago, to recommend changes regarding student governance. A week before that, Ted A. Mayer, the executive director of Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS), held a public forum and opened a blog to address the concerns of students...
...always only a matter of time before the Pritzker Foundation said "Arise, Sir Jean" to Nouvel, 62, who for decades has been one of the most closely followed architects in the world. Born in Fumel, a town in southwestern France, to parents who were both schoolteachers, he was already famous within the profession by 1981, when he was just 35, which is youthful in architect years...