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...budget we have wouldn’t allow that.” Undergraduates aren’t the only Harvard students headed to the game: about 100 people will be on buses organized by HLCentral, an organization for Harvard Law School (HLS) students, and the law school social organization Lincoln??s Inn. Tickets for those buses, now sold out, cost $10 and included round-trip transportation on Saturday, hamburgers, hot dogs, and “lots of beer,” according to Clark C. Severson, director for excursions for HLCentral. An email advertising the shuttle promised...
...Aaron Copland is famous for his orchestra and film compositions. Throughout his life, Copland created innovative pieces that were different from traditional European music. “A Lincoln Portrait”, written after Pearl Harbor was attacked, resonates with patriotism. The piece includes quotes from Abraham Lincoln??s writings that will be narrated by Dean of Harvard College Benedict H. Gross ’71 as Copland’s music plays in the background. Wei-Jen Yuan ’06, the winner of this year’s HRO Concerto Competition, will be playing Tchaikovsky?...
...When poker first gained a following on Mississippi riverboats in the mid 1800s—think adolescent Abe Lincoln??four players divided up a deck of 20 cards between one another, and then bet on who held the most valuable hand. Traditional poker mavens thus depended upon their ability to analyze human expression, a skill made obsolete by keyboards and screen names. A lip twitch there, a cleared-throat here, and a sharp intake of breath from competition to the left—these were the precursors to quick uploads and winning odds. Bluffing was an art; graphic...
...Jesus and Yahweh Harold Bloom 3. Maimonides Sherwin B. Naland 4. Beyond Reason Robert Fisher 5. 1491 Charles Mann 6. Freakonomics Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner 7. Little History of the World E.H. Gombrich 8. The World Is Flat Thomas Friedman 9. Bait and Switch Barbara Ehrenreich 10. Lincoln??s Melancholy Joshua Shenk
Shenk says that even if readers see Lincoln??s contemporaries’ views on mental illness as inferior to modern psychology, “it makes you think that these things are in flux, that our relationship to depression is a relationship of ideas. We’re developing and thinking about these things, and they can shift over time...