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...needed that," Harvard coach Tommy Amaker said. "It’s obvious that unless we get that, we’re not going to be able to play well, let alone win a game against a team like Michigan. The balance was there because we shared the ball...
...course, I am rather sensitive to all this because I, too, was born to a white mother and a black father, though I did not fully absorb this fact, which would have been so obvious to the outside world, until I was old enough to notice the world's fascination--if not obsession--with it. To this day it is all but impossible for me to actually stop and think of my parents as white and black or to think of myself, therefore, as half and half. This is the dumb mathematics of thinking by race--dumb because race...
...operatic score written for a full orchestra. While the original arrangement involved both Western and Eastern instruments, they were played separately. In contrast, this new arrangement attempts to blend the tonal qualities of Western and traditional instruments.“Our goal is to get away from this very obvious separation of roles between the Western and Azerbaijani parts,” said violinist Jonathan Gandelsman, who also arranged the version of “Layla and Majnun” that will be performed.On Monday, the musicians met in the New College Theatre to brainstorm new ideas to improve their...
...unsustainability of today’s trends cannot be emphasized enough. Ecologically, the critique has always been obvious: The consumption patterns familiar to many Western citizens today simply cannot be universally adopted. Instead, according to one environmentalist, if climate cataclysms are to be averted, we will have to reduce per capita carbon emissions to around 0.4-0.5 tons annually (the average American emits six tons). This is almost surely impossible barring a total transformation of current structures of consumption and production. As another, no less ominous example, consider the fact that mainstream economics has no answers for the displaced rural...
...issues like a freeze on settlements, the wall, and other issues that make Palestinian life easier. How reasonable is it to assume that you can have negotiations for removing the occupation and at the same time the Israelis are acquiring more land and building more settlements? Here is an obvious area where an intermediary has to step in and say, "No, this...