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...Reykjavik, Iceland all the sounds, from the desperate bombast of “The Seedling” to the barely-whispered finger-picking of “Wai” have an icy purity befitting the Emily Dickinson poem—“After great pain a formal feeling comes”—from which the album gets its title (“First--Chill--then Stupor--then the letting go”).Indeed, the standout track, “Cursed Sleep,” might be the most musically complex piece to ever carry Oldham?...
...September 25, 2006, Lauren Sucher, Director of Public Affairs of the EWG was drafting a formal request to Interim President Derek C. Bok calling for the release of the investigation’s report. FAN’s letter-writing campaign has already resulted in 400-500 letters sent to the president to demand to see the report, according to Connett, including twenty Harvard alumnae...
Harvard junior faculty members like their courses, their colleagues, and their influence over their own research—but they think tenure standards are unclear, formal mentoring programs aren’t completely effective, and child-care services need improvement, according to a study conducted by the Graduate School of Education...
Today Grove has returned to New York because City College's school of engineering is being renamed in his honor, in recognition of his achievement--and his $26 million donation. Later in the day, Grove gives a more formal lecture in a cathedral-style space in which he says the country's most pressing problems require more than just incremental improvements. That's particularly true in health care, with 46 million uninsured Americans, skyrocketing costs and an aging population. What's needed, he says, is "disruptive technologies" like unified electronic medical records, which can eliminate the grossly inefficient paper bureaucracy...
India's Muslim leaders plan to create a body to monitor new fatwas. But Islam has no formal hierarchy or clergy. So who can stop someone from issuing--or buying--a fatwa against the fatwa police...