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...cultural organizations at Harvard College. Foundation intern and co-director Dina L. Maxwell ’06 calls the show Harvard’s “chance to showcase different backgrounds,” explaining that the groups often come to her with their acts completely prepared before formal rehearsals even begin. “We really have very little to do with the magic that actually goes on onstage,” she says...

Author: By Mary A. Brazelton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ARTS TUESDAY: Cultural Rhythms to Energize Sanders | 2/22/2005 | See Source »

Though Negroponte has no formal intel background, he's an experienced consumer of intelligence, having headed five U.S. diplomatic missions. His well-tested skills as a diplomat may be particularly valuable. "He understands the power centers in Washington," Bush said of Negroponte. "That was code to the intelligence agencies that John is not going to rock the boat," says Leslie Gelb, a former Defense and State Department official and president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations. "He's not going to try to pound the table and create a revolution. The agencies would blow up anybody who would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush's New Intelligence Czar | 2/21/2005 | See Source »

...triangular play button to hear a musical interpretation of your artwork. Experienced musicians might predict some outcomes: lines curving up tend to produce increasingly higher pitches, and parallel lines generate harmonies. Different colors represent different instruments' melodic riffs or percussion beats, and the stylus can change tempo. Machover thinks formal notation systems are restrictive. "You would never tell a 5-year-old to imitate an existing painting," he says. "You just give them paint and guidance and let them do the rest." Although there's no definitive evidence that electronic music toys help kids become better musicians, Symphony Painter does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Music Into Art | 2/20/2005 | See Source »

...them. On one side of the waterway is Taiwan, whose democratically elected leader speaks of it as a sovereign state. On the other side is China, which regards Taiwan as no more than a renegade province, and has vowed to prevent, by force if need be, any formal declaration of independence by Taipei. Oh, and another thing: the U.S. is committed to defending Taiwan if it is attacked without provocation. Put all that together, and you've got a spot that is definitively hot. Yet when news broke last week that the draft of a communiqué by U.S. Secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia Has a Taste of Things to Come | 2/20/2005 | See Source »

...Need to Rush News accounts note that now that the Iraqis have held an election [Jan. 31], they will need to write a new democratic constitution before holding further elections. Why? New Zealand has survived for more than 200 years without a traditional, formal, written constitution. Can't Iraqis delay having a new one for, say, 10 years to see whether Western democracy works for them? Murray Hunter Auckland, New Zealand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 2/20/2005 | See Source »

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