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...have been snowing outside, but inside the Winthrop House Junior Common Room, a small gathering of the elderly and the youthful were alternatively startled, stunned and awed by the lecture-demonstration on jazz improvisation and movement by acclaimed soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom last Friday afternoon. Accompanied by modern dancer Peentz Dubble, and moderator Tom Everett, Director of Harvard Bands, Bloom presented “An Exploration of Improvisation,” which focused on combining physical movement and improvisation as a jazz musician in the first of Harvard’s Office for the Arts?...
...have worked our way into the hunt at both the Sprints and the IRA in recent years,” Northeastern coach John Pojednic stated. “But fifth at the IRA needs to be a stepping stone for us, not an accomplishment to rest on. I think I have evolved as a coach because of this league and my competitors; you either find a way to go fast, or you get run over. It’s about what you expect, and subsequently, about how hard you’re willing to work...
...national title race was no different: there was Harvard, and there was everyone else. A four-second victory at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) National Championships gave the Crimson its second consecutive national crown and an undefeated spring season. The second varsity would take home a silver medal at the IRAs, and the two crews would spend the rest of June preparing for a trip to the Henley Royal Regatta...
GALLAGHER: Financial services would benefit more from an expanded IRA, which has a greater chance than Social Security reform. Reform wouldn't funnel money into private mutual funds but to companies that index the market. The tax-free savings account is a bigger deal...
...Wodehouse's heart was in musical comedy. He was writing lyrics for London's West End in his 20s, and by 1917, five shows featuring his lyrics were playing simultaneously on Broadway. Commuting to the U.S., Wodehouse collaborated with Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin and Cole Porter. "Musical comedy was my dish," Wodehouse wrote of those happy days. "I would rather have written Oklahoma! than Hamlet.'" But the real money was in Wooster-shire. After a stream of popular stories about well-born wastrels, among them Bertie Wooster, Wodehouse introduced a valet named Jeeves. He paired...