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...story of a woman whose husband has murdered her children as if it were an unexceptional event. Munro includes chilling, yet matter of fact details of the woman’s relationship with her husband such as, “she was even allowed to laugh with him, as long as she wasn’t the one who started the laughing.” There is no place here for tears or court-ordered shrinks. Rather, Munro places much more stock by what the ordinary woman feels...
...jazz was a generation ago, American folk music is beginning—too late, as many enthusiasts insist—to be embraced and studied by the academic world. In that vein, “Fire on the Mountain”—a day-long symposium featuring world-renowned scholars and performers, including Grammy-awarding winning composer and banjo player Alison H. Brown ’84—aims to explore the roots, methods, and culture of bluegrass this Saturday in the Barker Center...
Lieberman said that he was prompted to think about the issue of how barefoot runners were able to run long distance for millions of years without the aid of shoes after he gave a speech before the start of the Boston Marathon. A man who was wearing only duct tape around his socks had insisted on asking Lieberman difficult questions about running...
...carry out this ambitious vision, the Task Force created the Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA), which oversees, revises, and prioritizes its original short-term and long-term goals. One of these goals is to encourage a great range of artistic expression...
...really can’t say I understand [their sacrifice] because I don’t think I ever could. I’m not that brave to go without that connection for that long, but they trust that these are the people that they are meant to be with, so they’ll do anything,” says Seyfried...