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After two years of waiting, South Korean cellist Bong-Ihn Koh ’08 will finally get to play alongside a North Korean orchestra in Pyongyang today...
...some speed bumps in the march toward health care reform. “I think it’s hard to tell today, without knowing what Congress will approve,” she said. “Feasibility depends on political will.” According to Howard K. Koh, a professor of Public Health and former Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Health, Obama’s plan calls to mind some of the main facets of Massachusetts’ own 2006 reform. “Senator Obama’s plan resonates with many of the themes...
...have diverse, gifted musicians here who collaborate all the time,” said Bong-Ihn Koh ’08, a cellist enrolled in a joint degree program with Harvard and the New England Conservatory (NEC). Saxophonist Alex J. Rezzo, another participant in the program, agreed. “What I really like about the Harvard side of the [Harvard-NEC] program is it seems like the musicians are creating their own opportunities to play...
...Koh points out, Harvard’s music department still emphasizes theory and ethnomusicology over performance. But while Koh wishes Harvard would utilize its NEC link to give more students the opportunity to take practical music courses, Rezzo supports the University’s current approach to the arts. “It’s a broad liberal-arts education, and that’s why I came here, at least,” he said...
...will in a few years host a plush eco-resort of palm trees and solar-powered bungalows. De Suremain, a French expat who runs guesthouses in Phnom Penh, says he combed Cambodia's shores for three years before he settled on building his resort on the remote island of Koh Rong. "I wanted something where you couldn't hear karaoke, where the neighbor's dogs don't bark and where the cocks aren't crowing in the morning," he says. "I wanted something completely isolated...