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...doomsday-style investigative reporting on nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan, who is under house arrest for selling Pakistan's nuclear secrets [Feb. 14]. Why not give your readers an alternative picture? Please try to understand: Pakistan is a country surrounded by problematic neighbors. We need our nukes to keep India quiet. We need to build economic ties with Iran for our mutual benefit. We need market access, scholarships, easy visas to other countries and technical know-how. Pakistanis have paid dearly for assisting the U.S. and the world community, first during the Afghan war and now during the war against terrorists...
From the first note, the orchestra’s overture immediately sets the show’s tone to a demureness that continues through the night. With tight ensemble and lightning-fast character shifts, the unflinching musicians carry the opera’s musical accompaniment with quiet confidence...
...security is just one sign of how tense this campus has become. For nearly six months now, a cloud of controversy has hovered over Morningside Heights, the quiet uptown Manhattan neighborhood that is home to Columbia. At the center of the storm is the school’s Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC), a small unit of 20 full-time professors, some of which have come under fire for allegedly fostering academic intimidation in their classes...
...room together with some instruments for a couple of hours, great things happen. My most memorable experience with The Blanks has been the yearly trip we make to a cabin in Vermont during intercession. It’s in the middle of nowhere, it’s unbelievably quiet, and there’s virtually nothing to do but play music or sled, so it’s an amazing place to focus on writing music together. Needless to say, you have to be pretty tight to survive a week in a cabin together...
...could run for ten years [in a format like that],” Mallozzi notes with a quiet joy, both for the potential shelf-life of the film and for the good work...