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...returned to his alma mater last night for the second time since 2007 to discuss his setting to music of Walt Whitman’s poem “The Wound Dresser,” in the company of two of Harvard’s most distinguished professors: University Present Drew G. Faust and English professor Helen Vendler...
...thought. Take this, for example: In 1968, America chose Richard Nixon as president. In 1971, despite Congressional objections, Nixon actively provided arms, ammunition, and political cover to the Pakistani Government while it carried out what an American official in Dhaka described as “genocide” in present-day Bangladesh. Even according to Henry Kissinger, the President’s decision was not really influenced by Cold War realpolitik so much as by a fondness for Pakistan’s military ruler at the time. Nixon’s foreign policy may have helped to kill as many...
...mill indie-loving college students to their Johnny Mathis-loving grandmas. Using a complex algorithm created by the Music Genome Project, a company Westergren helped found earlier, Pandora takes a listener’s favorite song or artist and recommends similar music based on a series of factors present in that song or artist’s catalogue. “[Pandora] replicates your best friend, but with almost perfect knowledge of an enormous catalogue of music,” Westergren said at the talk, which was sponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. A team of musicians...
...plays and deception. Though the play was written in the 1920s, BlackCAST set its production in a Chicago newsroom from the 1950s, a time in which women and blacks were starting to infiltrate a predominantly white male workforce. “The Front Page,” which was present last weekend in the Aggasiz Theatre, relies on a single set: a fictional newsroom on Paper Street, Chicago. The play opens with reporters waiting on the execution of Earl Williams (Graham H. Lazar ’12), an alleged communist who is convicted for shooting a policeman. The star reporter...
...father of her four children. Whatever else motivates their opposition, there is a pervasive sense that Royal, for all her personal charm, has failed to articulate a clear ideological line for a party that cares deeply - perhaps too deeply - about ideology, nor propose a platform the PS can present to voters as a blueprint for governing...