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...celebrated cello pedagogue Dr. Richard Aaron.“It meant leaving my family and traveling all the way here to be by myself to pursue music at a much higher level with him,” Yu says. “I realized that I could not forgo this wonderful opportunity to study music in a much more in-depth way and pursue what I really love.”Yu’s passion for music is evident in her activities at Harvard. She was a finalist in the 2007 Bach Society Orchestra Concerto Competition, is a current...
...water, or something in the air," he says. Before Tarby retired in 2007, FLDS leaders invited him to address the community about the disorder and how to prevent it. He told them that prevention would involve barring marriages between people with the recessive gene, or asking those couples to forgo children. He suggested that families discontinue having children once the disorder presents itself, or test for the gene during pregnancy and selectively abort pregnancies with the deficiency. All were approaches rejected by the FLDS. "It's not something they are willing to do," Tarby says...
...problem with recording lectures is that it encourages students to skip class. Missing an hour of instruction here and there is not uncommon, but it is not something that should be countenanced. Once reproduced, students become far more willing to sleep through a given lecture—or to forgo course attendance entirely. Some students even use the online availability of these videos to determine their schedule. Many professors who teach in rooms with the capacity to record lectures choose not to do so for this very reason...
...study group on “Picking Presidents,” which was moved from its usual location to accommodate the larger crowd. Richardson arrived over a half hour late for the talk, slated to start at noon, and quickly told listeners that he was going to forgo his scheduled appearance on CNN’s Situation Room to be able to stay longer. Yepsen interviewed Richardson, and then the governor took a handful of questions from audience members. Not surprisingly, many of the questions Richardson fielded centered on the race for the Democratic nomination for president. Richardson, who recently...
...stood pat on Reagan's zero option, which proposes that NATO forgo its planned deployment if the Soviets dismantle the 613 intermediate-range missiles they now have in place. NATO defense ministers meeting in Portugal were successfully persuaded by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger last week to reaffirm support for deployment of NATO'S missiles if there is no agreement at the INF negotiations in Geneva. But despite this declaration, West European leaders remain hopeful that the U.S. will adopt a more flexible approach. In this week's speech, Reagan is expected to indicate that the U.S. will consider accepting...