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...Summers, Hennesy, Hockfield, and Tilghman, the other presidents to sign yesterday’s statement were: CalTech’s David Baltimore, UC Berkeley’s Robert Birgeneau, UMich’s Mary Sue Coleman, UPenn’s Amy Gutmann, and Yale’s Richard C. Levin. Levin faced protests from graduate students on his campus last February for not condemning Summers’ remarks on women in science. —ZACHARY M. SEWARD
...looking for. Friends interviewed for this story defined him as much by his partying as his piano skills. At Harvard, Yuan was able to have more fun, but he did not give up piano. He practices between four and five hours a day, working with Professor of Music Robert Levin ’68, a pianist with an international reputation who has been his teacher and mentor for the last four years. Yuan has also performed with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, and last summer he went on a world tour. He is, according to fellow musician Brettman, the Harvard pianist...
...wants to get a second opinion on how the war in Iraq is going, where does he turn? To the Pentagon, but not to the top brass this time. In an unusual closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill last week, Virginia's John Warner, joined by Democratic Senators Carl Levin of Michigan and Mark Dayton of Minnesota, sat across the table from 10 military officers chosen for their experience on the battlefield rather than in the political arena. Warner rounded up the battalion commanders to get at what the military calls "ground truth"--the unvarnished story of what's going...
...Levin not only teaches a popular Literature and Arts Core class on Mozart, but also happens to be one of the world’s leading Mozart scholars. Unlike many musical academics who confine themselves to libraries and lecture halls, Levin practices what he preaches. He performs frequently, often excusing himself from Cambridge for weeks at a time to embark on international tours...
...Levin-ed parts of Saturday’s program present challenges of their own to the orchestra. Debussy’s short piece begins with a lonely (and nerve-racking) flute melody before unfolding into a fabulously French flight of fancy. The Beethoven, one of the most difficult works in the orchestral repertoire, demands both technical proficiency and musical maturity...