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...Stasi--East Germany's internal spy network--is in full fester, keeping watch on artists and political dissidents, forcing many into obeisance or jail, silence or suicide. Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich M??he), a mousy Stasi captain, plants bugs in the home of chic playwright Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch) and his actress girlfriend Christa-Maria Sieland (Martina Gedeck). Wiesler and his coarser superiors have motives as complex as they are nasty: to please a party boss, to tease out scenarios of voyeuristic lust and, well, because they can. Wiesler has another reason to spy and pry: he's good...
Tymoczko's answer, which led last summer to the first paper on music theory ever published in the journal Science, is that the cosmos of chords consists of weird, multidimensional spaces, known as orbifolds, that turn back on themselves with a twist, like the M??bius strips math teachers love to trot out to prove to students that a two-dimensional figure can have only one side. Indeed, the simplest chords, which consist of just two notes, live on an actual M??bius strip. Three-note chords reside in spaces that look like prisms--except that opposing faces connect...
...He’s done. No m??s. Not interesting,” Bartley said...
Watching the Harvard Early Music Society’s performance of “M??tamorphoses” felt like watching a condensed version of their rehearsals. Producer Joshua H. Billings ’07, stage director Matthew M. Spellberg ’09 and musical director Julia S. Carey ’08 presented four of Louis-Nicholas Clérambault’s 18th century cantatas, last weekend at the Agassiz Theatre. Although the performance started off shaky—both in narrative and accessibility—as the evening progressed, all its problems were resolved...
...that proudly displayed the names of posh prep schools and universities (think Grottlesex and Ivys). Rowers and crew aficionados lounged on plastic folding chairs, sipping Hefeweizen Unfiltered Wheat Beer out of plastic cups as shells smoothly zipped by. The North Yarmouth Academy tent proudly displayed an assortment of M&M??s and Tootsie Roll Pops amid a seasonal arrangement of pumpkins. Its neighbor, Berwick Academy, had a less impressive spread: a basket of apples and unopened jugs of apple cider kept lonely company with a welcome book yet to be signed by a single alum...