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Eule is writing about his now-wife and their friends, so the book is bound to be full of overly-cute personal asides. And while there are very few grace-notes (his attempts at flowery descriptive phrases are both unnecessary and square), when he sticks to the facts of his subjects' lives, Eule tells a dramatic tale of the compromises that young doctors (especially women) must make in order to succeed. "No program wanted one of its residents to get pregnant," he writes at one point, rocketing to the heart of the medical training tradition - grueling hours and almost complete...
...part of indie rock history so much as the barometer for its highs and lows. Emerging in the mid-80s with a series of distinctively exuberant college-rock LPs, the band pioneered a sound that fit somewhere between the fury of second-generation post-punk and the ragged grace of jangle pop. Releases like 1989’s “President Yo La Tengo” look ahead to alternative rock and the last major epoch of indie rock, with a balance of shaggy guitar lines and feedback loops screwed against a subdued but gleeful pop framework. The band?...
...second season. Competing in its first event since mid-November, the Crimson took advantage of an unseasonably pleasant weekend here in Cambridge to claim second place at the Sharpe Trophy Team Race on the Charles River. “The weather was great” sophomore Grace Charles said. “It was great to get back out there again this weekend. It was a good opportunity for a learning experience.” “We were very pleased with our performance this weekend in a pretty competitive tune-up regatta” sophomore Teddy Himler said...
...with the orchestra’s ensemble. Shaky starts, mismatched lines, and rough endings of phrases were minor, but noticeable in the first two movements of the E-flat major symphony. Despite the few early stumbles in the performance, the BSO did not fail to deliver on charm and grace, particularly in the third movement. Levine drew out long lines ascending a hearty scale in the minuet. The clarinet solo featured in trio section easily captured the sweet, dance-like feel of the symphony’s shortest movement.Yet the nimble passagework of the symphony’s finale...
...which refers to the implosion of Reykjavik's banks last October and the subsequent political crisis, was a wry reminder of Ireland's financial fall from grace. But one reason people laughed was they believed things in Ireland would never get that bad. (See pictures of hope in Belfast...