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...times, the listeners appeared to be more serious than the performers, casting disapproving glances when a child’s cries interrupted their musical experience even as Jasraj himself provoked laughter when his accompanying singer, Sougata Banerjee, was unable to follow Jasraj’s rapid scalar flight between melodious high notes and the lowest notes of his three and a half octave range. Singing mostly in Hindi, Jasraj’s performance may have seemed completely alien to those unfamiliar with South Asian culture. And yet, while the vocals were indecipherable at times, the emotion was palpable, immersing...
...violence, regression is fighting regression. It is a double step backward. The question is not what we are willing to kill for but, as Gandhi said, what we are willing to die for. Nineteen young men answered that question in a terrible manner on 9/11. The passengers of Flight 93 answered it in a diametrically opposed, compassionate and extraordinarily caring manner. Both answers need to be analyzed and discussed and the results taught to every one of our youngsters. That is the only way we will eventually create a better world. Michel Mortier Zug, Switzerland U.S. foreign policy needs...
...than 20% in the slums. And while jobs are scarce, says Wilson, "there's no lack of opportunity to get into crime." Despite dire prospects, the poor keep arriving in the city of 18 million. As joblessness, crime and violence continue to grow, the rich are beginning to take flight. Mariana Montoro Jens, who works for an antiviolence ngo called Instituto Sou da Paz, says: "People think of this as the country of soccer and samba. But this is a violent country." The rise of the pcc is one sign of that. Says Ferréz: "In a place where...
...legs had been blown off by a rocket-propelled grenade. Though uncomfortable at first, Katie stuck around to console the 24-year-old Ranger, and from that day on followed each phase of his recovery. When he was on furlough and had to bounce on his butt up a flight of stairs to check on his crying son, Katie commiserated. When his young wife seemed overcome by the burden of a handicapped husband, Katie fretted for their marriage. After he went snowboarding on an amputee outing to Colorado, Katie brimmed with compliments...
This fall, as hundreds line up to go through security checks and present their IDs, officials will be targeting a new source of danger: liquids. Transatlantic flight? No—it’s the Harvard-Yale game, albeit with new, improved College rules for underage drinking, the result of College negotiations with the Boston Police Department (BPD). The College has declared that, this year, students and student groups will no longer be allowed to bring any alcohol to the official tailgate at Ohiri Field; the only source of merriment will be spiked hot chocolate and beer served to students...