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...credit, versus study of art, that’s one of things that the task force is looking at,” Megan says. The task force also hopes to encourage students to hone their artistic skills—by becoming proficient in a musical instrument, for example, rather than taking a music class. CONSERVING TALENTSome Harvard musicians have already begun developing both their musical proficiency and their analyitical ability. In conjunction with Harvard, the New England Conservatory (NEC), located just across the river from campus, offers a joint-education program that allows a student to graduate from...
...singer, Yan, readily admits, “I just don’t get it.” Less focus on esoteric allusions allows the band to showcase their musicianship, as well as the album’s production. Every song is overflowing with different musical elements, with each instrument distinctly audible rather than muddled by excess. This is most apparent on instrumental track “The Great Skua,” which emulates the symphonic post-rock of Explosions in the Sky, and provides much-needed relief after chaotic rockers “Down on the Ground?...
...Americans are that the use of force in the developing world can be counter-productive, summoning up the ghosts of a racist colonialism among those it is supposed to help. In fact, after their blood-drenched last century, many Europeans are just plain skeptical about force as a policy instrument in any circumstances. Unsurprisingly, those attitudes are held with particular devotion in Germany. In a recent poll for the German TV station ARD, 86% answered no to the question: "Should the German army carry out combat missions in Afghanistan like other nations' troops...
...mandating that all articles based on research funded by the National Institutes of Health be made openly accessible through PubMed Central, the database maintained by the National Library of Medicine. The Harvard University Library will set up an Office for Scholarly Communication to make the open-access repository an instrument for access to research across all disciplines in the spirit of the “one-university” environment that the HOLLIS catalog now provides for holdings in all the libraries, more than 80 of them, throughout the University system. The Office for Scholarly Communication will also promote maximum...
...confirmed nationalist who requires all foreign players signed to the team to learn Catalan, and who has fashioned himself as an international ambassador of sorts. He even popped up, for example, at this year's Frankfurt book fair to promise that his team "would continue to be an instrument for Catalan culture." But his activism, coupled with Catalonia's demands for increased autonomy, has provoked conflicts with political conservatives who view the team's cultural involvement as one more portent of Spain's disintegration. Tuesday's declaration was no exception. "Barcelona is a bilingual city, and the team should reflect...