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Guatemala goes to the polls on Sunday, haunted by a violent and contested past and anxious over an increasingly violent present. The legacy of the country's 36-year-civil war is never far from contemporary politics, and the front-runner in the presidential runoff - retired General Perez Molina, whose right-wing Patriotic Party has a very slight lead over left-leaning businessman Alvaro Colom in some opinion polls - has been the subject of allegations in a new book on the 1998 assassination of Guatemalan human rights crusader Bishop Juan Gerardi. Gerardi was bludgeoned to death in the parish house...
...However, Molina's slight edge in some polls - Colom actually has his own small lead in other surveys - is based on voters' concerns over present-day violence. Crime has soared in the country of 13 million since the signing of the 1996 peace agreements between leftist guerrillas and the government - close to 6,000 people were murdered last year alone. Most of the killings are blamed on violent youth gangs known as maras, or on turf battles between powerful drug cartels. And that violence has seeped into the election, with over 50 candidates and party activists killed since campaigning began...
...agreeable alternative to the dining halls. Tomorrow, the Pub may very well play host to something even greater: the renaissance of live music at Harvard. Well, as long as the money holds out.Sponsored by campus radio station WHRB and the College Events Board (CEB), the pub will present a night of performances by Harvard’s own DJs Radius and Quiet, preeminent Harvard band The Sinister Turns, and New York independent rockers Nightmare of You. The entire performance will be broadcast live on WHRB, allowing Harvard students and members of the station’s greater Boston following...
...Kalpanam.” “Dance drama is an attempt on our part to keep the tradition going so that people are exposed to it.” Each year, production staff choose a different theme for the dance drama. This year, it will present episodes from a classic Hindu epic, the “Ramayana.” The central figures in the dance drama are Rama—an avatar of Vishnu—and his wife Sita. The story explores the themes of good and evil, as well as the definitions of the ideal...
...production will feature an entire spectrum of unusual instruments, ranging from the relatively common harpsichord (they have two, actually) to the improbable-seeming overgrown lute known as the theorbo. Baroque trumpets, baroque oboes (or “haut-boys”), and baroque bows for string instruments are also present in the ensemble.“There’s this whole sound vocabulary that’s absent from other music,” Spellberg explains. “The music is more exposed and rawer...