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...when you think about the national pasttime. Imagine if at the end of a tied nine inning baseball game, the ump flipped a coin to determine who hits first. If that lucky team scores right away, it wins. It doesn't have to protect its lead by getting the final three outs, and the toss loser doesn't get its chance at "last licks...
...appreciation for the work. Take “The Bed,” where Reed narrates Jim’s thoughts as he recollects Caroline’s suicide and their old life together. The accompaniment of discordant voices provided by the Brooklyn Youth Choir floods the final minute with so much pathos that it becomes almost unbearable. Their overlapping chants of “So Cold” are more than enough to hammer home discomfort in even a stalwart listener. After all this time, revisiting “Berlin” seems almost a cathartic and vindicating experience...
...Michael Crichton ’64 died of cancer at the age of 66. As fate would also have it, “ER”—the primetime TV medical drama Crichton created, wrote, and produced—is in the midst of its 15th and final season, ending after February sweeps in 2009. As can already be seen in other medical dramas like “House,” Crichton’s absence in this genre will be strongly felt.Upon graduation from Harvard, Crichton received Summa Cum Laude honors and became a member...
...Force for the Arts” before introducing the play to come. “It is my hope,” Faust said at the time, “that the Task Force will complete the bulk of its work during the 2007-08 academic year, with a final report to be submitted by the early fall of 2008.”“This marks a new beginning for a new era of arts at Harvard,” Faust declared. Her announcement stirred widespread excitement in Harvard’s artistic community...
...deeply humanistic and pessimistic ethos, the record narrates the day of its eponymous protagonist’s failed suicide attempt. Each track represents a different moment in J. Smith’s day. Travis eschews chronological order and groups the tracks instead for tonal coherence (though the first and final songs, “Chinese Blues” and “Before You Were Young,” do mark the beginning and end of the character’s day).Fusing together a multitude of influences and showcasing a fair share of erudite literary allusions...