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These events were designed to give the television networks fresh pictures to remind people to vote. But it's all a kabuki dance. The last days of a modern presidential campaign have a rote feel - quick flights followed by airport-hangar rallies in which McCain makes jokes, strains his vocal cords and repeats the same speech he has been making for about two weeks. If the microphones are not working well, which is often the case, he jokes that they are "brought to you by the Democratic National Committee." When he gets to the part where he calls Barack Obama...
...Boston Modern Orchestra Project performed alongside guest artist Kenneth Radnofsky to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Israel’s independence at Sanders Theatre on Sunday evening. The concert, “Israel at 60: Six Decades of Innovative Music,” marked the world premier of Israeli composer Betty Olivero’s composition Kri’ot, the first piece of Israeli classical music to join a solo saxophone—played by Radnofsky—and a string quartet. Oliveros’ premier received a five-minute standing ovation from the audience. Sponsored by the Combined...
...Galileo’s colleagues who were burnt at the stake for believing in heliocentrism, but we don’t live in a late-medieval theocracy. America is the daughter of the Enlightenment, the most technologically advanced country in the world, and a superpower that owes its modern strength to science more than anything else. In order to protect the security and strength of the United States and ensure that we leave our children a planet we would want to live in, it is vital that the next president take a principled stand in support of science...
...formats have achieved ubiquity has become a truism. I mean, Christ, with the upcoming campus performance by Girl Talk and links to the Ratatat remixes being sent out over house lists, even the Harvard community is up on it. Most attribute this popularity to the inability of the modern public to sit down and listen to a full song and the lack of proper record stores. In fact, I think the truth is that a great many people like good music—it’s just that they’re sometimes not willing to search...
...Whichever candidate wins on Tuesday (although I have my fingers firmly crossed for one of them), I urge him to heed the wisdom of Kennedy and Roosevelt. Spending $500 billion on a missile defense system may no longer be advisable, but surely spending $5,000 on modern dance...