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...sounds, not because your grandma has a violin in the attic,” he told us, and, since already I loved the wolf’s theme in Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf,” I decided to play the French horn. The convolution of tubing didn’t daunt me, nor did the bus driver’s helpful suggestion that I should have taken up the flute. My parents never had to tell me to practice and endured with grace my first spasmodic renditions of “Mary...
...senior in high school, I wondered whether playing the horn might provide a fulfilling career and, though I’ve since abandoned that notion, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) provides me with as fulfilling a musical experience as I could hope for outside of a conservatory. Sitting in the horn section, I see the mix of musicians that makes the experience so rewarding. The aspiring professionals from whom I can learn so much sit beside both those who consider HRO only an extracurricular activity and those who, like myself, find in HRO a mix of serious musical training...
...NATURAL RESOURCES The price of metals and other raw materials is rising. Bernard Horn, manager of the Polaris Global Value fund, is overweighting resource-rich South Africa and buying the stocks of materials companies around the globe like paper firms Sappi in South Africa (ADR up 18% in the past 12 months) and Svenska Cellulosa, or SCA, in Sweden (ADR up 8%). Other countries rich in natural resources and poised for outsize benefit are Australia and Canada...
...second study, conducted by research associates Catherine L. Horn and Stella M. Flores, concluded that percent plans, even when supplemented by other race-conscious procedures, do not offer an effective alternative to considering race and ethnicity in admissions...
...work of the Civil Rights Project has been used in court cases before,” said Horn, who co-authored one of the reports...