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...open with remarks from E. Forrest O’Connor ’10, president of the Harvard College American Music Association (HCAMA), and Deborah Foster, a Folklore and Mythology senior lecturer who helped adapt the department’s annual symposium to feature bluegrass music. Brown and her husband Garry West, co-founders of Compass Records—a record label that specializes in part in bluegrass music—will join scholars to discuss the roots of the genre. The day will culminate with an evening performance by Clint W. Miller ’11, Brown, legendary bluegrass...
...look at life’s dramas. “Dimensions,” the first story in “Too Much Happiness,” could easily be ripped from the headlines of a tabloid. Nevertheless, Munro manages to tell the story of a woman whose husband has murdered her children as if it were an unexceptional event. Munro includes chilling, yet matter of fact details of the woman’s relationship with her husband such as, “she was even allowed to laugh with him, as long as she wasn?...
...dying by auto-dissolution afforded the greatest ecstasy known to man.” It’s not clear how the parts were meant to be linked, though early on Flora does refer to the “mad neurologist’s testament” her husband has been laboring over for years. Nabokov’s writing process as glimpsed here seems to have involved piling together neat phrases (e.g. “pinaforing her stomack with kisses” [sic]) in the hope that there would be time later to arrange them into a plot...
...movie musical “Mamma Mia!” says, “I recently just met a bunch of women that are literally just hanging and waiting... about 100 families [at Fort Bragg, NC], wives in particular, that were telling me how their husband or fiancé had just been deployed and it’s tough...
...point a woman approached me, visibly angry. Her husband is one of the last remaining detainees in Guantnamo, she said. He had escorted his sister to Afghanistan to marry an Arab fighter but was captured in Kandahar by the Americans. Eight years later, she is waiting for President Obama to close the prison and return her husband. Nearly half of the remaining detainees at Guantnamo are Yemeni; their transfers were halted after the failed Christmas Day bombing attempt. Said Ali al-Shihri, one of several former detainees who reportedly returned to terrorism after their release, is now deputy...