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Professional alpine climber Micah Dash scaled a different kind of peak last night—Harvard’s ivory tower—to speak to students about his worldwide climbing adventures. Sponsored by the Harvard Mountaineering Club, Dash’s multimedia presentation in the Fong Auditorium featured a set of videos and a photo slideshow from his experiences, as well as a raffle of Mountain Hardware climbing gear. Mountaineering Club President Kevin F. Jones ’10 said the goal of the event was to “inspire members to think bigger and broader?...
...music to passing monks or her own fevered head. She would turn back–No! It would be now ... but how could she even–when all at once Frederick threw himself from the branch and hit the water with a slap. “Frederick! My mountain flower!” Roxanna shrieked. She ran down the hill and dove in after him. Roxanna could still hear the melancholy last notes of “hey nonny, hey nonny,” lingering in the mist when the cold water closed around her. She had seen Frederick?...
Maoism and the Cultural Revolution made that harder to do. Even indigenous opera was swept aside in favor of such turgid revolutionary works as The Red Detachment of Women and Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy. Long experienced the suffocation of the musical arts in a more personal way than most when his grandfather, who had studied music in Paris, was sent to the country to work - but only after the Red Guards destroyed his musical library. "When I was five he started teaching me music anyway," Long says. "We were only allowed to learn revolutionary songs, but he taught them...
...Clinton. He won 54% of Catholics, 66% of Latinos, 68% of new voters - a multicultural, multigenerational movement that shatters the old political ice pack. He let loose a deep blue wave that washed well past the coasts and the college towns, into the South through Virginia and Florida, the Mountain West with Colorado and New Mexico, into the Ohio Valley and the Midwestern battlegrounds: you could almost walk from Maine to Minnesota without getting your feet wet in a red state. After months of mapmaking all the roads to 270, Obama tore right past with ease...
...Obama campaign has recruited 300 volunteer lawyers in the state to be ready at polling places in case voters are challenged Election Day. The campaign has also set up a central call-in center in case someone needs to make a complaint or seek guidance. Polls open 8 a.m. Mountain Standard Time and close twelve hours later. By Pat Dawson / Billings...