Word: hometowner
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Electroma.” Their hypervisual, intergalactic performances are, in effect, reversals of the music video form—they make videos that come to life. But “Alive 2007” is all music, no spaceship—and Daft Punk still succeeds. Recorded in their hometown of Paris—which they had avoided for 10 years—the album opens with a drawn-out tease: an electronic voice bleating “ro...bot” clutters up against a stuttering, indecipherable set of syllables. It accelerates; the mess of noise coalesces...
...Music Department Chair Ingrid Monson, who also teaches Literature and Arts B-82. “We always coordinate with the OFA [Office for the Arts at Harvard], who wanted her to do a Learning from Performers event.” Renowned trumpeter Marcus Belgrave mentored Allen in her hometown of Detroit; since then, she has played and recorded with a seemingly endless list of notable and diverse musicians—Bill Cosby, Steve Coleman, Betty Carter, Ravi Coltrane, and Marianne Faithfull, to name but a few. Allen has also put out a dozen albums. Most recently, the Walt Whitman...
...guess I was lucky.' MUTTIAH MURALITHARAN, Sri Lankan spin bowler, on bowling out English batsman Paul Collingwood. The feat took place during a match in Muralitharan's hometown of Kandy, making the bowler the greatest wicket taker in Test cricket, with Collingwood his 709th victim
House: Eliot. Concentration: Same as everyone else. Hometown: A warmer place. Ideal Date: 1990. Best way for a girl to get your attention: Grits. Where to find you on a Saturday night: Bop It tournament. First thing you notice about a girl: Bop It skills. Your best pick-up line: Hi I’m Will. Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: I want to work for you because... Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: I don’t want to work for you. Favorite childhood toy: Shiner. Sexiest physical trait...
...night at a dinner joining journalists, students, and newly elected mayors at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. As part of a biannual leadership conference for newly elected mayors, hosted by Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP) and the US Conference of Mayors, Harvard students and their hometown politicians were given a chance to discuss local affairs before engaging with a panel of journalists speaking on the 2008 presidential election. “Even though the [new mayors’ conference] is designed for mayors, it is also designed for students to interrelate with their mayor back home...