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...High Fidelity” will open on Broadway next month if it receives enough acclaim from the Boston audience. One can only hope that Generation Yers who lost their indie music (or actual) virginity because of the movie, as well as anyone with an ear for musical theater, will protest this horrible wrong...
...voices of protest came at a particularly crucial juncture for science at Harvard, with the unveiling last week of a new plan to overhaul the Core Curriculum for undergraduates and key decisions looming over what the multi-billion-dollar Allston campus will look like...
...Mused Dmitri Furman, Professor of the Russian Academy's of Sciences Institute of Europe: "In Soviet times, funerals of individuals frowned upon by the state but beloved by the people emerged as the only form of spontaneous public protest." Furman invoked the funeral of poet Boris Pasternak in 1960, which grew into the first spontaneous demonstration by the Soviet intelligentsia in decades. He also recalled the funeral of poet and bard Vladimir Vysotsky in 1980. In contrast to the refined Pasternak, the folksy Vysotsky, perennially restricted and harassed by the authorities, was as popular among ordinary Soviets as Elvis Presley...
...push for actions such as financial sanctions to punish North Korean counterfeiting. The Bush Administration's unresolved internal debate, however, left its own position suspended between engagement and confrontation, while the six-party process remained stalled for the past year as North Korea refused to rejoin the talks in protest against the financial sanctions...
...triplet of staff editorials, the Spec calls the protest "absolutely disgraceful," but also criticizes the national media for their coverage and asks the administration to use caution in searching for Facebook as part of its investigation. A slew of other opinion pieces are available here—including a few unrelated to the Minuteman fiasco, believe...