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...playing for someone. There’s always an opportunity to build an audience.“I guess essentially a venue would be better, because there’s a better sound system, but I just care to play in front of an audience, so however I can obtain that is great,” Gerard says.He’s trying to develop and maintain a fan base, but he also uses his street acts as a type of workshop for his performance style.“It’s just the best way to sort...
...appreciative of “the need to keep the taboo on nuclear weapons that has existed for 60 years” rather than creating the appearance that use of nuclear weapons is a possibility. He also said he considers it unlikely that terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda will obtain nuclear weapons. “If they do...I would expect that they will try to use them for influence rather than to destroy,” he added. Dillon Professor of Government Graham T. Allison ’62, who is also a former KSG dean and the director...
...court entranceway. For two weeks the Supreme Court debated the constitutionality of Musharraf's nomination for a second term as President, despite his ongoing tenure as Army Chief. The holding of dual offices is normally prohibited by Pakistan's constitution, but in 2002 Musharraf was able to obtain a one-term waiver. Elections, which are undertaken by an electoral college made up of national and provincial parliaments, are to be held on October 6, just three months before general elections for a new parliament are due. Many hold that the current assembly, which has been in power nearly five years...
...nothing is easy in a country with such a complicated past. Developers have struggled to obtain contiguous plots of land, and regional officials have been slow to grant building permits because of concerns over unscrupulous practices and environmental impact. The only course in Istria is the oldest in the Balkans. The 18-holer on the Brijuni Islands is located on Marshal Tito's former private playground, where the Yugoslav dictator once hosted dignitaries and Hollywood stars. As if evoking Tito's fleeting and superficial glory, the course is left untended, and the greens are manicured by grazing deer...
After months of lobbying by students for price reductions, Harvard University Health Services (UHS) said yesterday that it would offer the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for $25 per shot. Women under the age of 26 on Harvard’s insurance plan will be able to obtain the vaccine, which has been shown to decrease risk of cervical cancer, at the new price from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. today at a “Gardasil Clinic” in the Holyoke Center. The price drop comes after the Harvard College Women’s Center, the Seneca...