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Interviews with six of the more than 13 Iraqi attorneys defending Saddam and his lieutenants reveal a constant backdrop of threatened violence as they try to perform basic legal tasks like deposing witnesses, reviewing documents and preparing their clients for the trial, which resumes next week after a recess of almost five weeks. At best, the lawyers say, they face a logistical nightmare when visiting the U.S.-run prison on the western outskirts of Baghdad, where high-ranking members of the former regime are being held. At worst, they fear that every trip home from the office could...
...WERE BOOED AT LA SCALA BUT RETURNED TO PERFORM AT THE OPERA HOUSE SEVEN MONTHS LATER. HOW WAS THAT? I felt if I didn't go back, the experience would loom larger in my memory, and I needed to step up to the plate. It is a lot like getting back on a horse that has thrown you. But Pavarotti was booed there, and he never went back. [Opera at La Scala] is a little bit like a sports event, with fans shouting at their teams...
...Harvard, this celebration starts off appropriately enough with our own Mozart Society Orchestra (MSO). This Saturday, Nov. 19, the group will perform its annual fall concert, featuring Mozart’s “Piano Concerto No. 21 Koechel 467” with Robinson Professor of Humanities Robert D. Levin ’68, along with Claude Debussy’s “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun” and Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Symphony...
Never shortchanging his Harvard audiences, he makes the most of his time here: last spring he performed Mozart’s “Piano Concerto No. 19 K. 459” with the Bach Society Orchestra, and this spring he will perform Mozart’s “Piano Concerto No. 24 K. 491” with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra...
...middle distance. His girlfriend resembles Brittany Murphy on a cocaine-and-makeup binge. The first part of the video depicts Jimmy’s life as a hazy, jumpily filmed swirl of sex, drugs, rock-’n’-roll, hating his mom, and watching Green Day perform “Jesus of Suburbia” on TV (so meta it hurts). This thrilling lifestyle is cut short about halfway through the video, as his girlfriend leaves him; he gets into fights, and assumes a general aura of angst. Never fear, for Jimmy’s life rebounds...