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Next time your kids sit down at the computer to zap some aliens or instant-message a friend, consider this: they could instead be composing an octet or viewing a Renoir...
...circuit. To many undergraduates these activities seem like perfectly acceptable ways to pass the time between the early evening reruns of “Third Rock From The Sun” and bedtime. These poor individuals are sorely misguided: Every morsel of octopus sushi consumed and every Stravinsky Wind Octet ticket sold confirm the sad pretensions of Harvard’s student body...
...Bonesetter's Daughter, like The Joy Luck Club, shuttles in time and space between present and past, the U.S. and China. The subject once again is the powerful, fraught relationship between mothers and daughters, but this time Tan's focus is narrower and more intense: not the octet of characters and narratives in The Joy Luck Club but a single story encompassing a lineage of three women...
...From the very beginning, the octet has been every bit the all-star ensemble predicted. Collectively, their high school resumes read like a Who's Who in amateur women's soccer. Among the eight of them are four club soccer stars, three former state players-of-the-year, two U.S. under-18 national team players, and, in Yenne, a player ranked fifth all-time in the national high school soccer annals for most goals in a season...
Second place in the competition went to the University of Illinois' Other Guys, an all-male octet. The Men's Octet from the University of California at Berkeley snagged first place, along with a trophy and $1,000. They also won the last time the competition was held, in 1998, making for the first-ever repeat victory in the NCCA...