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...Harvard presidential candidate, late in the search process, according to an individual familiar with Varmus’ activities. Varmus, 67, met with committee members several times for interviews as late as January, according to the source. On the sidelines, he drew support from former Brown President Vartan Gregorian, an individual in touch with the committee said...
...momentous day in Ethiopia this year. But while the rest of the world will solemnly mark the anniversary of the terrorist attacks in America, Ethiopians will be partying like it's 1999. That's because in Ethiopia, it really is 1999 - unlike most nations today that use the Gregorian calendar, the East African nation of more than 70 million has stuck to a Julian-inspired one. And according to that calendar, September 11 just happens to be the last day of the 20th century...
...more natural consistency than others on the album. “Murs Beat” is “The Third Hand” at its most experimental, as the drums and any trace of hip-hop vanish in the middle of the song and are replaced by Gregorian chant-like vocals. On the whole, the shorter cuts—“Someday” and “Laws of the Gods”—are the weakest ones, largely because they seem like unfinished projects. By the time the electronics, the vocals, and the drums...
...Waiting for the 7.18,” mimics the pace of the first with another slow-paced intro—accented by glockenspiel and Okereke—leading into an epic chorus. “The Prayer” opens with a steady, stomp beat over a low, Gregorian hum, and showcases electronic ambience and Okereke’s playfully arrogant lyrics. This interesting blend of sounds is, strangely enough, the album’s first single. “Uniform” and “On” are reminiscent of the ballads on “Silent...
When you first hear them, a Gregorian chant, a Debussy prelude and a John Coltrane improvisation might seem to have almost nothing in common--except that they all include chord progressions and something you could plausibly call a melody. But music theorists have long known that there's something else that ties these disparate musical forms together. The composers of these and virtually every other style of Western music over the past millennium tend to draw from a tiny fraction of the set of all possible chords. And their chord progressions tend to be efficient, changing as few notes...