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Rothenberg spent the first semester of his junior year at Harvard in Nepal on a study abroad program. "I'd always wanted to go but it just seemed more of a dream, rather than something I could go and get credit for and save money doing--because it's much cheaper than going here." He spent the bulk of his stay living in Katmandu with a family that didn't speak any English, studying many aspects of the country's culture and learning Nepali...
...last month in Nepal, Rothenberg went to live in a monastary, primarily to study the "gyaling", a Tibetan instrument that looks like a big oboe with a large conical bottom and sounds like "very noisy bagpipes--very nasal and loud...
...Tibetian and Japanese music, improvisation, and jazz. Last fall, at Currier House, he put on "The Tibetan Book of the Dead" a play he wrote the music for based on Tibetan religious beliefs in reincarnation. "It was a real opportunity to combine what I had learned while being in Nepal with the music I had done before...
Rothenberg lived in South House sophomore year, but when he came back from Nepal at mid-year, he found he had the lowest priority to receive housing. So he moved into the Jordan Co-ops and subsequently loved the experience that the co-op offered--"halfway on campus and half off, not so far away to feel disconnected--and the food is much better...
Since then 9,695 man-made objects have fallen from orbit, but the number that survived the atmospheric plunge to hit the earth is unknown. Shards have landed on more than a dozen nations, including Zambia, Finland and Nepal. As early as 1961, Premier Fidel Castro indignantly charged that a re-entering chunk of a U.S. spacecraft had struck and killed a Cuban cow. A year later, a 21-lb. metal cylinder landed at the intersection of North 8th and Park streets in Manitowoc, Wis. The debris was later identified by the U.S. Air Force as a fragment of Soviet...