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...Eyes of Blue.” This spring, senior bandleaders Max S. Mishkin ’09 and Greg D. Dyer ’09 realized the two-year-long dream of putting together a small band by recruiting their fellow students in The Harvard University Band to join what is now unofficially called The Charles Riverboat Band. Mishkin credits the ensemble’s adviser Thomas G. Everett, who also directs The Harvard University Band, with “pushing us to listen across the group and improvise instead of just playing what’s on the page...
...remain suspended until tomorrow, following a plan laid out last Friday. “If things stay stable, hopefully they’ll [both] be open on Thursday,” Rosenthal said, also noting that all of the infected students were making full recoveries. The three Harvard cases join a total of 34 cases in Massachusetts, a figure that officials say has ballooned over the week due to the newly-acquired availability of highly specific testing within the Boston area’s state lab. None of the cases in Massachusetts have led to fatalities, though three patients were...
...bucking a leftward trend in Central America - a region that, despite its signing of a free-trade pact with the U.S. a few years ago, has since seen leftist Presidents take power in Nicaragua and El Salvador and more centrist governments like those in Honduras and Costa Rica join energy alliances with left-wing Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. "I think this shows that, at least in countries where the democratic rules of the game are accepted, more right-of-center politicians like [President Alvaro] Uribe in Colombia or [President Felipe] Calderón in Mexico can, of course...
Soma Chakraborty moved to Bangalore as a new bride in November, excited to join her husband, Avishek, in a place known for fun, freedom and opportunity. That notion lasted about a month. "I'm trying to love the city," she says gamely. But the city has not made it easy. Soma, 24, hasn't been able to find work - in a recession, no one's interested in her master's degree in psychology without experience - and Avishek's once coveted job at the outsourcing firm Satyam now depends on the whims of the scandal-tainted company's new owners. (Read...
...Prachanda to revoke his decision." A coup is almost ruled out: Nepal's army has no history of seeking political power, furthermore it knows it has the support of the President and the other political parties. "All other parties are working on permutations and combinations. Ideally, the Maoists should join a national all-party government - which would be in the best interest of the peace process," says Dixit, "If Prachanda can surprise us with a speech like today, he can probably surprise us again...