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...Tang brings a distinguished rap pedigree to Harvard, boasting several multiplatinum records, including Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers, which makes Rolling Stone’s list of the top 500 albums ever produced. Its members have also individually released hits to critical and popular acclaim: Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… and GZA’s Liquid Swords are counted among hip-hop’s all-time classics...
...what would become a lasting legacy to the dean’s office, Moses founded in 1979 the popular Freshman Outdoor Program (FOP)—a pre-orientation program that sends incoming freshmen on week-long wilderness trips in an attempt to ease the transition from high school to the College...
...performance held in the Fogg Courtyard was incorporated to give modern day viewers a taste of this 18th-century European extravagance. Dancers Camilla Finlay and Ken Pierce, fully dressed in period costume including makeup and wigs, danced to live music performed by a trio of string players. Dances included popular choreographed pieces from the court of Louis XIV, such as “L’aimable vainqueur,” as well as a minuet, a dance which was unique because it was not choreographed to a specific song and could be danced unrehearsed with any partner. Following...
...rightful place on campus,” not much has changed—at least by way of giving jazz greater prominence in the academic world. While jazz has yet to make a major appearance on Harvard’s academic scene and remains neither broadly popular nor canonically academic, it has become a thriving but little-known subculture for a few students on campus. Indeed, there are indications that the relative obscurity of the jazz program is not a negative phenomenon: not only does it mirror the status of jazz outside of Harvard, but it has allowed student devotees...
...this point, I’ve primarily focused this column on the successes of the television world: hardy popular hits such as “Lost” and “24” or delicate flowers of the pay-cable hothouses like “The Wire.” But for every midseason success like “Grey’s Anatomy,” there must be at least five shows that meet the fate of “The Return of Jezebel James.” You’ve probably never heard...