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...Bernhard ’05 (Economics Concentrator in Cabot House) was in first grade, his mother never imagined that he would come to be one of Harvard’s premier Jazz musicians. “We had a piano in the house, and I would take a hammer and hit the keys with [it].” If he were going to continue to play the piano, his mother declared that he would have to take piano lessons...
...Lewis’s plan, students such as Samuel W. Teller ’08 are already inspired to explore the endless realm of technological possibilities taught in the class. “I don’t care whether Prof. Lewis gives us Google or a Sicilian battle hammer for the final, because by the end of Bits I’m going to know how to build my own final-taking robot from scratch,” Teller wrote in an e-mail. “I’m going to name him ‘Forktron...
...violent incidents near pubs and clubs each week - and 47% of all violent crimes - Home Secretary Charles Clarke last week blamed booze for the 6% rise in violent crime in the third quarter of 2004. "We are building a massive problem for the future if we do not really hammer alcohol-related crime," he said. Geethika Jayatilaka, director of policy and public affairs for the charity Alcohol Concern, says: "The government has not found a way out of this to address the growing concern from the public, the police and doctors." Many Britons would rather tackle problem drinking than gamble...
...Intelligence Council report suggested it might-then how will the President's rhetoric sound a decade from now? Will he appear as foolish in retrospect as Woodrow Wilson does, holding out for a League of Nations in the negotiations after World War I instead of using his leverage to hammer out a more equitable and practical European peace...
...tens of millions of victims of Soviet tyranny, including many thousands who fled to the United States, the Hammer and the Sickle are anything but a laughing matter; they are the symbols of a tyranny that carried out acts as depraved, bloodthirsty and merciless as anything propagated by Hitler’s Third Reich. The lack of outrage over the continued usage of Soviet images is disturbing, because it suggests a shocking lack of historical perspective. While few are prepared to say it, the Russia that Lenin and Stalin forged in the blood of millions of nameless peasants...