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...were playing with five Harvard students they had met only days earlier. An Armenian artist drew improvised images to accompany the music and projected them onto a huge screen. Few, if any, of the listeners had ever heard a song with string parts for a traditional Persian kamancheh...
...Monday evening, the Ensemble began one of the most interactive aspects of its week: actual performance with students. The OFA invited dozens of student musicians to play with the Ensemble in two “reading sessions” of original music by Persian ensemble member Kayhan Kalhor...
...billion for the reimbursement of lodging expenses and $1.3 billion on trailers and temporary homes. And that is just the beginning. Shortly after Labor Day, the Bush Administration asked Congress to sign off on an additional $51.8 billion--roughly what the U.S. spends in Iraq each year. Unlike the Persian Gulf, though, the funds earmarked for the Gulf Coast were expected to last a month or two. House Republicans were so spooked by the size of the request that the White House dispatched Budget Director Joshua Bolten to Capitol Hill on Sept. 7, where he made an unusual, late-evening...
...City in Baghdad and across the south, appears to be leaning against the constitution and his followers have demonstrated alongside Sunnis over the issue of federalism. SCIRI, Badr and Dawa all support the constitution. Significantly, they all have support from Iran while al-Sadr's relationship with Iraq's Persian neighbor has been stormy. His opposition to the constitution is more about limiting the influence of Iran rather than hard opposition to the principle of Iraqi federalism, while SCIRI and Badr are packed with Iranian sympathizers who are actively doing Tehran's bidding in Iraq. But there is an economic...
...been failures," says Steven Pinker, a cognitive scientist at Harvard. "It's a bit of a conceptual mismatch. If your roof leaks, you don't have a war against rain." Often those waging the wars request a name change. Drug czar Barry McCaffrey, who fought in Vietnam and the Persian Gulf, called the war metaphor "inadequate" for drugs in 1996: "This isn't going to be won by anybody's army." Former State Department official David Long told the New York Times in 1998 that flu would be a better analogy for terrorism: "Every year there's a new strain...