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Friday, Nov. 4. Blodgett Chamber Music Series. The Ying Quartet, featuing Bob Levin on piano, perform chamber works by Beethoven and others. 8:00 p.m. Paine Hall. Free. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office...
...another in Delhi, three doors from his parents'. His father was a shoe company executive, his mother the first female High Court chief justice in India. Her autobiography was published in 2003. "Yes, she beat me to it," jokes Seth. His next project: "I'll finish the Suitable Quartet - you know, The Unsuitable Boy, The Unsuitable Girl, The Suitable Couple." A joke, right? "I don't know," deadpans the author of very long books, "but it'll be something short. As a reader, I'm very impatient." As a great-nephew, however, he is very patient. An early draft...
...brief, Democrats want to know if he would be willing to throw it out or whether that would be too radical a reaction for his taste. Conservatives hope Roberts will line up with Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Scalia and Thomas in favor of overturning Roe, which would match the quartet--David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Stephen Breyer and John Paul Stevens--that wants to maintain it, leaving Anthony Kennedy as the swing vote. While Roe might survive, such a lineup would probably ensure that the 2003 congressional ban on partial-birth abortion is upheld...
Over the course of four albums and innumerable appearances inside the heads of characters on The O.C., the Seattle-based quartet Death Cab for Cutie has established itself as the go-to band for a particular kind of postadolescent melancholy. The standard Death Cab song, sung in the earnest and always reasonable voice of Ben Gibbard, hews to the belief that the world is big and tough, that we are small and bruise easily--so let's stay small, stay together and hope for the best...
...KRONOS QUARTET...