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Jerry McNamara sits on a ledge set into the platform wall, an accordion resting on his lap and a gray tweed hat hiding his downward-cast eyes from the pedestrian traffic. His fingers fly over the keys of his instrument as he embellishes a medley of holiday carols, tapping his foot beside a case scattered with coins and bills...
Former Harvard economist Jeffrey D. Sachs ’76 told a packed crowd last night that the U.S. has a moral responsibility to alleviate poverty and preventable disease—and said the Bush administration should use aid instead of bombs as its foreign policy instrument...
...Willie's instrument of change is a fat and irredeemably nerdy, irredeemably innocent lad, Thurman Merman (Brett Kelly), with whom Willie moves in. There's a purity about Thurman, earnestly carving Willie a rather phallic pickle for a present, that finally reaches Willie's stony soul. And ours...
...They were treated less as an instrument and more as an attribute of church service,” he said of the bells’ history. “In a way it doesn’t seem quite right that bells made for religious purposes are being used this way—but the fact that they are played...is better than them not being played...
However, our studies of skill memory (for example, the type of memory used in learning to play a musical instrument or learning sports) have provided a more refined picture. We have found that after a new memory is formed, it is initially vulnerable and susceptible to being lost, but across initial periods of time while a person is awake (somewhere in the region of six hours), the memory becomes more stable and less vulnerable...