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...cohesive musical unit. The band began as a collaboration between Berman and Pavement mastermind Stephen Malkmus, but this lineup includes such luminaries as bassist Paz Lenchantin (of Zwan and A Perfect Circle fame) and singer-songwriter Will Oldham (a.k.a. Bonnie “Prince” Billy). This motley crew is so fluent in the idiom of country music one would never suspect that they are only two steps removed from the alt-metal stylings of Tool. Ironically, the only cut on the album that doesn’t quite work is “The Farmer?...
...allow ample contact with upperclassmen who can better inform concentration choices. That said, the downsides to changing the concentration deadline far outnumber these advantages. Not only will students be left another semester without a dedicated concentration adviser, they also risk frittering away more of their Harvard experience taking a motley lot of classes without sufficiently considering how to unify their interests. Moving concentration declaration to the middle of sophomore year would also inhibit the flow of study in concentrations that rely on a full-year sophomore tutorial...
Reflecting on her grandmother’s life, Hannah Motley remembered the judge’s virtues of “poise, integrity, and courage...
...This was a woman who worked tirelessly up until the last week of her life in the service of others—in the service of justice,” Motley wrote. “She encountered such ugliness in her life—from the slums of New Haven where she grew up to the Jim Crow South where she fought for freedom—and it was her mission to impart beauty and goodness to this world...
...Motley is survived by three sisters, a brother, her husband, and her son, Joel Motley III ’74, who also attended Harvard Law School...