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...appreciate your attempts at diversity. But your pies lack a certain "Je ne said quoi,'" a student wrote on one of the infamous yellow cards. "By this I mean they suck shit...
...Music is a kind of self-reflection," says the staunchly nationalistic composer. "I don't try to write tragically, but those are my feelings." Kancheli's output includes seven symphonies, an opera and many shorter works; last month his passionate 25-minute work for viola and string orchestra, Abii ne viderem ("I turned away that I might not see"), got its American premiere from violist Kim Kashkashian, conductor Dennis Russell Davies and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. Their ECM recording of the same work has just been released...
Liberty is everything you expected those cafes in Harvard Square to be when you leafed through the glossy pre-frosh brochures. It has the best coffee in Cambridge, live music and that je ne sais quoi that makes a coffee house. The waiters notice you long enough to give you a menu or take your order, but still maintain enough aloofness to seem like they have higher pursuits, probably a little cooler than yours. The "Large Joe" makes up for the $1.70 T-fare or the schlep out to Central...
RELEASED. JEFF STONE (NE GILLOOLY), 27, newly named ex-spouse of rogue skater Tonya Harding; from prison after serving a year for his role in arranging Nancy Kerrigan's knee clubbing; in Oregon...
DIED. U NU, 87, former Prime Minister of Burma (now Myanmar); in Rangoon. U Nu was named the country's first Prime Minister in 1947, a year before independence. A popular politician, he promoted nonalignment abroad and democracy at home-but discord within his government led General Ne Win to seize power in 1962. U Nu proclaimed himself Prime Minister of a "parallel government" when pro-democracy activity pushed aside Ne Win in 1988, but the military quickly placed U Nu under house arrest. Released in 1992, he spent his last years in seclusion...