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...Even the Broadway dramas that deal with more contemporary characters and issues seem intellectualized and aloof. In 33 Variations, Jane Fonda (making her first appearance on Broadway in 46 years) plays a musicology professor suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease who tries to solve a musical mystery: why Beethoven, late in his life, became obsessed with writing variations on a minor waltz by a now forgotten contemporary composer. Writer and director Moises Kaufman (The Laramie Project) jumps back and forth in time - we see Beethoven in flashbacks - as the professor races to finish her research before the disease incapacitates...
International Relations on Campus (IRoC) has been working with the Global Health and Aids Coalition to invite Haven on campus to speak for their Global Health Day, on Wednesday, April 6th. According to Alyssa T. Yamamoto '12, an assistant director of IRoC, Harvard Medical School professor Jim Yong Kim had recently met with Haven's PR person, and the actor expressed his interest in creating "some sort of bond between celebrities and academia...
...Engineering Ecology; and What Next. “One of the main aims was to move understanding of ecology beyond the environmental,” said Gareth G. Doherty, the conference director and a doctoral student at the GSD. The keynote speakers of the event were Rem Koolhaas, a professor at the GSD, and Homi Bhabha, the director of the Center for the Humanities. The event began with a roundtable discussion and proceeded with five panel discussions and a variety of informal Saturday lunchtime discussions. Sold out within weeks of its announcement, the conference attracted guests from around the world...
...Institute will announce the sixteen finalists, who will present to a National Selection Committee chaired by Kennedy School professor David Gergen...
...ready to start over. Both see Turkey playing an important role in regional issues, from Syrian-Israeli peace talks to oil and gas security in the Caucasus and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. "Under Bush, Ankara and Washington were divided on many fronts," says Sahin Alpay, politics professor at Bahcesehir University in Istanbul. "With Obama, they are moving closer together on all of these...