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...Wednesday, the quarter will perform in Paine Hall, while on Thursday, the group will bring their “Chamber Music in Any Chamber” to the Queen’s Head Pub for a free concert. The quartet was unable to reveal what they would be playing at the pub—not because it’s a secret, but because they rarely decide club show set lists before the day of the performance. “We like to keep it fresh,” says Rebecca J. Fischer, the first violinist...
Coinciding with their residency at Harvard, the quartet is also embarking upon an ambitious mission to play all 16 of Beethoven’s string quartets in concert—some portion of which the Queen’s Head audience is likely to hear Thursday...
...Ireland to its core and left the reputation of the religious orders that ran the institutions in tatters. Then, on Nov. 26, another government inquiry found that the church and police colluded to cover up child sex-abuse cases in the Dublin archdiocese from 1975 to 2004, prompting the head of the Irish church, Cardinal Sean Brady, to apologize. "No one is above the law in this country," he said...
...traders, including government-owned companies, have long since swapped out of North Korean won and instead hold Chinese renminbi, yen or dollars as a store of value. The black-market value of the won has been decreasing for years, and North Korean inflation has been accelerating. The former head of a large North Korean trading firm who recently defected to Seoul told TIME, "Some kind of move like this was expected for a long time." And, he says, it won't have any impact on bigger companies and traders. Instead, the move punishes a broad swath of people in North...
...Still, the relaxing of restrictions begins to address the human rights issues raised by human rights groups, aid agencies and other countries. United Nations Humanitarian head John Holmes, who visited Menik Farm and a resettlement area last month, called the lack of freedom of movement a "fundamental concern." Two days after Holmes left Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa announced that restrictions in the camps would be eased. The European Union has indicated that the treatment of those in the camps could sway a decision on whether to extend a crucial trade concession later this month. (Read...