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...time, “What is the best part about being a Crimson columnist?” There are so many benefits to the position that I don’t even know where to begin. I relish the opportunity to use Harvard’s premier media outlet to express my strong opinions about controversial topics that affect the very core of our University and even the world at large, like how chicken parmigiana should be served more often than biweekly. I love the power to stimulate intellectual debate over some of the world’s most perplexing...
...really amazing to have a year on my own to just experience that. That’s when I realized that I just really want to be doing the arts in my life.” At Harvard, he has satisfied his musical inclinations by serving as the premier percussionist and former president of the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra, performing with more than 12 Harvard musical groups, recording with singer-songwriter Tim Blaine, working with jazz gurus like Chick Corea, and even co-founding his own DJ company, Story House Entertainment. Since high school, Collins has broadened his array of creative...
...screwed” remixes of minimal thug anthems, reggaeton offers exciting instrumentals and a beat that couldn’t be much easier to synchronize on the fly. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, as Marley Marl and Kool G. Rap handed the reins over to DJ Premier and Nas, rap entered what many call its “golden age,” wedding abstract lyricism to street-level relevance over complex beats. With the efforts of producers like Luny Tunes and artists like Calle 13 (whose new album “Residente O Visitante” dropped...
...anyone's venture is special to him. And the England of James I and his predecessor, Elizabeth I, suffered from overpopulation and poverty. Pushing people into other lands could solve both problems and even have a side benefit. As the Rev. Richard Hakluyt, England's premier geographer, put it, "Valiant youths rusting [from] lack of employment" would flourish in America and produce goods and crops that would enrich their homeland. The notion was so prevalent that it inspired a blowhard character in the 1605 play Eastward Ho! to declare that all Virginia colonists had chamber pots of "pure gold...
...Green diplomacy has already borne some fruit: When Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao came to Tokyo earlier this month - the first visit to Japan by a Chinese leader in nearly seven years - the two sides kept to a minimum discussion of the painful shared history that had aggravated tensions between them, instead trumpeting plans to cooperate on the environment. Few concrete details emerged from the meetings, although a normally truculent Beijing did agree for the first time to actively discuss what should happen after Kyoto. But the summit's amicability showed that environment could provide the basis for safe diplomacy...