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...seen here at MIT. Because of what I have seen across America. Because of what we know we are capable of achieving when called upon to achieve it. This is the nation that harnessed electricity and the energy contained in the atom, that developed the steamboat and the modern solar cell. This is the nation that pushed westward and looked skyward. We have always sought out new frontiers and this generation is no different...

Author: By June Q. Wu | Title: Obama Disses Harvard, Pushes Clean Energy | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...took home the Nobel Prize in Literature amidst accusations by his countrymen that he had sold out to the West. But Pamuk is no activist. In his latest, civil war and sectarian violence make an appearance only as background—instead it’s the relationship between modern love and loss, problematic in its own right, that becomes the stuff of his dreamlike meditations...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pamuk’s ‘Innocence’ a Stylistic Triumph | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...three men come to seem interchangeable with each other, as well as with any of the narrators in Pamuk’s other books. These tiny, invisible connections unspool gradually to spin out a place both intricate and familiar, the nostalgia-saturated inverse of the fast-paced modern city: turning the first few pages of the “Innocence” feels like nothing more than coming home...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pamuk’s ‘Innocence’ a Stylistic Triumph | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...ironies of modern technology is that it has made clinical care more expensive and devalued clinical judgment,” Ropper says...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Putting the Patient Back Into Medicine | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

James C. Liu ’89, who plays Jupiter, agrees. “Parts of the libretto explore the relationship between men and women in a way that is surprisingly modern,” he says. Semele’s ambition and her desire to contend with Jupiter as an equal can be likened to the women’s movement of the 1970s, he suggests. And though this is not the focus of the performance, it is certainly an underlying theme that helps lend the opera some contemporary relevance...

Author: By Hana Bajramovic, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Semele’ Takes a Modern Tone | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

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