Word: mehtas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cyrus R. Mehta, an adjunct associate professor of biostatistics who is the United Ministry representative for the Hindu and Zoroastrian religions, agrees that religious interest at Harvard seems healthy...
...Mehta estimates the size of the undergraduate Hindu community to be around 100, but says that many do not attend weekly prayer sessions for area students hosted by the Swami Sarvagatananda...
...government professors willarrive at Harvard in the spring. Pratap Mehta, whois working on his dissertation at Princeton, willteach political theory. Deborah Yasbar, who iscompleting a dissertation at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, will be an assistantprofessor in Latin American politics...
...prevented. The episode does not speak well for Israeli claims of tolerance and democracy. A decade ago, Zubin Mehta, the Israel Philharmonic's music director, tried to perform a Wagner piece as an encore, but the music was shouted down by members of the audience. At that time, a poll of Philharmonic subscribers indicated that 86% wanted to hear Wagner. Just prior to the abortive Barenboim concert, the Philharmonic musicians voted 39 to 12, with nine abstentions, to break...
...right protocol was observed. KURT MASUR, making his first appearance as music director of the New York Philharmonic (succeeding Zubin Mehta), rightly judged that the occasion was more ceremonial than musical. So the German maestro began with a polite bow to America, conducting two short pieces by contemporary composer John Adams and a set of Old American Songs by Aaron Copland (winningly sung by baritone Thomas Hampson). Then Masur, who has led Leipzig's venerable Gewandhaus Orchestra since 1970, reached under his tailcoat and produced his own credential: an authoritative, warmly expressive version of Anton Bruckner's Symphony...