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Over the course of a long career, Barenboim has both played with and conducted the world’s premier orchestras, most recently the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which he left last July after a 15-year tenure...
Last month marked the premier of 02138 Magazine. The publication is about as subtle as a falling brick. It prattles like a man suffering from a mid-life crisis who wishes he were still in college. Yet no college experience today, not even that of fair Harvard, can possibly extend to an entire lifestyle, as the magazine suggests. 02138 is the self-billed chronicler of “The World of Harvard,” but this is all metaphysics. The magazine claims to promulgate a distinctly “Harvard sensibility.” What that is supposed...
SHIMON PERES, Israeli Vice Premier, on lessons learned from the war with Hizballah. In a speech to a London think tank, he argued that Israel must re-evaluate its tactics, saying that sustained economic growth may work where "neither force nor diplomacy...
...Alexander de Waal lived briefly with the Janjaweed, a militia of Arab nomads in Sudan. Twenty-two years later, de Waal found himself negotiating a peace settlement among his former hosts, the Sudanese government, and the rebel groups. As a premier expert on Sudan, de Waal, a research associate at the Global Equity Initiative at the Harvard Asia Center, was an adviser to the African Union’s negotiations with the Sudanese government this past year. ‘IN THEIR HOUSEHOLD’De Waal’s first contact with Darfur’s warring parties dates...
...hypocrisy, spitting “Now come on everybody, let’s make cocaine cool / We need a few more half naked women up in the pool.” It’s clear that Fiasco could become one of hip-hop’s premier lyricists. He has tremendous range, scribing the light-hearted skateboard romance “Kick, Push” and Sturm und Drang issue songs like “He Say She Say” and “Hurt Me Soul.” “The Cool” tells...