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...Theater and organizes the Annual Harvard Conference on Tai Chi and Health. Members of the club can choose to focus on tai chi or kung fu (there are separate practices for each, plus a joint practice on Sundays), and follow the professional leadership of Master Yon Lee. Members also perform at occasional events and make appearances at St. Paul's School in New Hampshire as well as in the Cultural Rhythms festival at Harvard. Membership also entitles one to join in "discussions on issues of health and philosophy that are the foundation of Chinese martial arts [which] happen over Peking...
...When in doubt, perform. This rationale has led some professors to employ theatrical techniques to stimulate the audience. "I do give a good lecture. I like to tell a good historical tale," says Mendelsohn. "Sure, the material could be magnificent, but if I were dull, they wouldn't come...
...stage desperate students perform another kind of side-show. Kirshner's students have subjected him to every "academic" excuse thinkable. From a student missing a midterm because of a prior commitment to testify in a trial to a complaint that a plane ticket to Bermuda was non-refundable, Kirshner says one pitiful plea irks him to no end. "The worst excuse is, 'I have an interview with Goldman Sachs...
...broken up," though the members have to "sit down and see where all our heads are at." She has her own production company, and she might steer it in a unique direction: "I'm looking to produce black science-fiction films." Then there's her tour. She'll perform her first solo show in the U.S. on Feb. 18 in Detroit. But she'll take time out to attend the Grammys in Los Angeles on Feb. 24, for which she has received 10 nominations. "There are kids in the audiences now who weren't born when there wasn...
Meanwhile, European diplomats are pushing a plan whereby the Palestinian people would finally get to vote in municipal elections in April as compensation for delaying the statehood declaration. Arafat, says the source, has put off such voting, fearful that Muslim radicals would perform well and thus further challenge his authority...