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...lead our little lives - running errands, tending the kids, making our livings. We endure our modest setbacks - we're late getting home, when we get there we're not as emotionally attentive as we might be - and our minor triumphs - the children perform endearingly at the school concert. But this we almost never acknowledge that tragedy of the kind that can forever shatter our middle class contentment is ever and always only a heartbeat, a hair's breadth, away...
Harvard has raised the curtain on new secondary field programs for budding actors, dancers, and musicians seeking formal recognition for their work. Minors in music and in dramatic arts, which includes theater and dance, recently became available to undergraduates. Students of drama in particular have long pushed for more academic acknowledgment, either through the creation of a department or concentration. “There’s been a long and difficult process getting credit for theater,” said Robert Scanlan, who chairs the Committee on Dramatic Arts, the group of faculty and artistic leaders that proposed...
...facility built in 1930. The first phase, in 2004, addressed primarily “programmatic” issues, Gibson said. In that renovation, the MAC added a glassed-in balcony, a spinning room, and doubled the size of the weight room, but no major structural work was undertaken. Only minor finish work remains before final inspections can take place and the facility can open its doors to students. “There’s still a fair amount of work to do, but there’s been an awful lot of work done in the past few weeks...
...subjected us to. There were long, psychological exam-style questionnaires to fill out, strict contractual pledges to sign - and interrogations of the neighbors, whose names we had to submit as character references. When the agency finally delivered the dog - I'm withholding its name because it's still a minor, at least in human years - the agents insisted on staying for much of the afternoon to make sure we weren't going to make it mow the lawn or clean the bathrooms...
...which intelligence reports are saying were caused by explosive-laden vehicles parked on the side of the road, about 30 meters away from Bhutto's party. An unconfirmed report said that the first explosion may have been caused by a suicide bomber. Members of Bhutto's entourage escaped with minor injuries, but the crowds lining the path took the full brunt of the blasts. Party members on the truck describe a scene of mayhem and carnage. Body parts and human flesh were scattered across a large radius and a few human torsos could be seen draped across the highway median...