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...vivacious spirit in several allegro movements, while the Prokofiev String Quartet No. 2 in F Major, Op. 92, provided a dynamic and powerful contrast. The Prokofiev was quite accessible to the casual listener, incorporating folk melodies and stirring emotional themes. The peaceful, melancholic Brahms String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 51, No. 1, beautifully demonstrated the quartet's skill at intricate interplay and musical lyricism. The concert concluded with a crowd-pleasing arrangement of Aaron Copland's "Rodeo" for String Quartet, in the year of the 100th anniversary of his birth...
...open bar party at the Charles Hotel for its over 200 volunteers, the total amount donated to Harvard is minuscule. In the last decade, the average total Senior Gift (before expenses are accounted for) was $37,600. Compared to the $14 billion endowment, its impact on the College is minor...
...lapels, reminiscent of the red ribbons worn to commemorate those who have died of AIDS. I applaud these individuals for co-opting this brilliant advertising campaign. Some might have hesitated to equate victims of this century's greatest plague with the plight of an Ivy League student embroiled in minor-league political controversy. These courageous warriors for justice refused to abandon their quest for increased visibility for the sake of mere taste...
...shut down by two days of riotous protests against fuel price hikes. With little prospect of an economic turnabout to deliver urban voters, Mugabe now faces a "long march" back into the countryside before April's parliamentary elections. And the arrests of a number of opposition campaigners on minor charges before Sunday's vote may only be a foretaste of what could prove to be Zimbabwe's most bruising political contest...
DIED. RICHARD KLEINDIENST, 76, Nixon Attorney General who stepped down during Watergate and later pleaded guilty to a minor antitrust-scandal charge; in Prescott, Ariz...