Word: harps
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...djembe (African drum) sessions. Friday is griot night when a beer costs only 90?. tel: (223) 675 5933 LE HOGON: A fixture on the Bamako circuit for over a decade, Le Hogon is managed by the amiable Moussa Yaffa, a DJ who mixes techno with the kora (traditional harp). The club's best performers include Toumani Diabate, considered the world's greatest kora player, and the 22-piece Symmetric Orchestra, whose complex, swirling melodies are produced by the balaphon (a West African xylophone), djembe, kora and guitars. tel: (223) 223 0760 DJEMBE: Rough-edged Djembe may have been around longer...
...production—no one could have doubted that hiring that young director would start a major uprising on part of old Wagner devotees. We move on to other topics—opera productions elsewhere, but also the issues that middle-aged people all over the world love to harp on: why aren’t everyone’s children married yet; detailed descriptions of everyone’s health; the sorry state of politics...
...auditorium where praise and criticism are meted out with wit and a steely determination to get things right. Like his predecessor, David Glass, Scott is a modest man with a ready supply of pungent remarks. He has been on the receiving end too, as Wal-Mart's critics harp about its low-wage jobs and sprawling stores. Scott has no apologies in stock for most of them. When the company does dumb things, it deserves the knocks, he says. But with 100 million patrons a week voting their opinion through their purchases, "we have to focus on the customer...
Next, Smith criticizes Professor of Physics Melissa Franklin and Julia H. Fawcett ’04 for perpetuating “the fallacy that women can’t succeed in a competitive environment.” Rather than “harp on differences between men and women,” Perspective should realize that “the common humanity both genders share is a real basis for equality” and that “an entire issue devoted to one gender has consequences.” Perspective thinks Smith misses the point. Gender equality...
Perspective should strive to be more inclusive. It could start by realizing that the common humanity both genders share is a real basis for equality. As it stands, Perspective prefers to harp on differences between men and women. As Fawcett writes, “We want to recognize women as different from men.” In that case, Dartboard hopes that Perspective will live up to its mantra of equality and in its next issue serve up some more manly fare...