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Although they won’t be wearing candles in their Arts First performance in Lowell Lecture Hall this Saturday, BFA aims to introduce a lesser-known tradition to the Harvard campus. Former co-director Alejandra Beristain-Barajas ’10 says, “A lot of times we stick with Jalisco because we know it’s a crowd pleaser. People know the Mexican Hat Dance, but we’re trying to show other regions that haven’t been showcased as often.” One such energetic piece, “Zacatecano...
Morrison’s self-described “music for the different and the uninvited” serves as a perfect score to the story of his life. DiCillo does a great job of including both hits and lesser-known songs when appropriate. It is especially poignant to hear Morrison croon “The End” as images of other fallen legends, including Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, drift across the screen...
...doing their own version of Lent," says A.J. Jacobs, the virtuoso of this self-as-guinea-pig genre. He has written about such odd and intermittently enlightening challenges as living strictly according to the Bible for a year, during which he followed the Ten Commandments as well as lesser-known rules like the ones prohibiting the shaving of beards and wearing clothing of mixed fibers...
...dramatic federal investigation of Switzerland's UBS has blown the lid off bank secrecy - and revealed how Swiss banks abet tax evasion on a far more widespread, if more banal, level. Over the past two decades, these secret banking services have been peddled progressively downmarket - first to the lesser-known fabulously wealthy, then to just the wealthy; more recently, private bankers have been tripping over themselves soliciting business from doctors, lawyers and other folks who are what the biz generally calls "high net worth" individuals. "The IRS has been concerned for decades that a combination of a global economy...
...devoted to their great works when they are already so well known? A paragraph would be sufficient to inform the uninitiated, instead of half a page. It might even be an greater honor for these men if our society’s memorializers were to emphasize the lesser-known aspects of their works and lives in their obituaries. Readers might be tempted to learn more about these pieces, and we could reevaluate, as a society, their place in our society. This wouldn’t be revising history; it would be adding to it and, at the same time, enriching...