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After intermission, pianist Konstantin Lifschitz performed Brahms’ First Piano Concerto. This was 25-year-old Lifschitz’s overdue Boston debut but the result was somewhat disappointing, especially after such an explosive first half. When Lifschitz released his recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations at the age of 16, he drew comparisons with the great Glenn Gould. One could also make an association with Gould based on his Brahms performance: both pianists took the work at almost unbearably slow tempi. Unlike Leonard Bernstein, who performed the work with Gould in 1962, James Bolle...
After beating Harvard teammates Cliff Nguyen and Brian Wan in the semifinals, Chu and Choo met Brown’s talented tandem of Nick Goldberg and Adil Shamasdin. Despite falling behind 6-7, Chu and Choo—who stunned the 34th-ranked doubles team in the country in October—strung together nine consecutive points en route to the surprise comeback...
Books by conservatives are hot these days, but it still comes as a surprise to see that Bernard Goldberg's Bias (Regnery; 232 pages) has bounced to the top of the New York Times best-seller list. The former CBS News correspondent caused a stir in 1996 when he published a column in the Wall Street Journal complaining that a snide CBS Evening News piece about presidential candidate Steve Forbes was an instance of biased reporting. The book expands that charge into a broadside against liberal bias in the media. Goldberg, though foaming a bit at the mouth, lands...
...critic loses out to the ideologue for long stretches (arguing that the media have underplayed the downside of having kids in day care and overplayed the "myth" of heterosexual AIDS). The book also has a heavy dose of score settling. CBS News executives come across as duplicitous scoundrels, and Goldberg claims that Dan Rather, after assuring him just before seeing the Journal editorial that "we were friends yesterday, we're friends today, and we'll be friends tomorrow," hasn't spoken to him since. Which may explain why Bias is No. 1. Press critiques are for journalism schools; any book...
...time (sorry Gould, I think he has you beat hands down). His major contribution to evolutionary theory has been the concept of the gene as the fundamental unit of natural selection, not the organism or the species. He conceives of organic beings designed by genes as gigantic Rube Goldberg contraptions meant to ensure the transmission of the gene into the next generation. In his vision, the genes have constructed your body merely as a temporary means of gettin’ on down the line. Using this framework, Dawkins constructs the most wonderful Darwinian Just-So Stories imaginable, explaining the emergence...