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...this weekend's Outdoor Heps at Penn's Franklin Field, Taylor will run in three individual events and two relays: the 100-meter run, the 100-meter high hurdles, the 400-meter intermediate hurdles, the 4x100 relay, and the 4x400 relay...
...must read Candide by Voltaire. Voltaire was a freethinker like Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and others, although they did not go by that name. Today freethinkers like myself and my family go by the name humanists. I'll tell you an interesting story about Voltaire. He was a landowner who had many employees, almost all Roman Catholics. Despite the fact that his humanism was skeptical of the existence of God, he never said anything to his workers to make them skeptical. Voltaire knew, respected, and valued how comforting religion was for them. He kept his humanist conversation within small circles...
...Although organizers Alex Kellogg '00, James Wilson '00 and Franklin Leonard '00 are not planning a follow-up themselves, they see their Cabaret as part of a wave of experimental projects appearing this spring (including Troilus and Cressida this weekend and an upcoming showcase put together by Benjamin Novak '01) and are quick to point out that, while the Cabaret was unique, it is not the only collision of art forms to occur at Harvard, past or future. "The talent pool is just too deep for these things to have to stop for any good reason (save entryway tutors crying...
...interesting story: Burt Bacharach and Hal David may be performing together for the last time this summer. I guess it's fashionable to either totally hate Bacharach or to like him only in an ironic way, but I think he's written some great stuff. Just think of Aretha Franklin's "I Say a Little Prayer," Naked Eyes' "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me" or Dusty Springfield's "The Look of Love." Of course, Bacharach's reputation isn't improved by album covers like the one pictured here...
...worst thing that happened were the few times I had to teach classes with my son in my arms," Franklin says. "Students get a kick out of it--the first time...