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RICHARD S. STEEN (above, right), the acting director of the troubled Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services (HASCS), was the author of a confidential memo that revealed the problems in the understaffed, underfunded office. On Thursday, Dean of the Faculty JEREMY R. KNOWLES (not pictured) promised that funding for HASCS would be increased in "the near future...
After waking up yesterday afternoon, I did some more reporting. I interviewed a few more seniors, and I tried to reach others, including campus figures: the inestimable Michael P. Beys '94, former Undergraduate Council chair; Zaheer R. Ali '94, former Black Students Association President; etc. (Okay, there's no "etc." I only tried to reach two campus figures...
...able to authorize access to the material," says TIME reporter Hilary Hylton. "He also made clear that he was concerned about aspects of the evidence that were ?problematic? for the official version of events as told by the FBI." With conspiracy theorists crying cover-up and Congressman Dan Burton (R-Ind.) threatening to go ballistic on Capitol Hill, Justice?s attempt to keep a lid on the evidence may simply fuel the clamor. "A lot of different parties want to take a look at this material, and any perceived foot-dragging or reluctance by Reno to make it available will...
...newest release, Onda Sonora (Portuguese for sound wave), explores similar territory. It's a challenging album that offers peformances by Veloso, k.d. lang, Cape Verdean singer Lura as well as the enchanting sound of Fado--a kind of Portuguese folk-blues. Next up: a CD featuring R.-and-B. stars tackling the music of Duke Ellington. Looks as if Red Hot will stay that way for a long time...
There's a long, strong history in R. and B. of female singers taking lovers to task. Pop music, of course, is full of songs about romance gone wrong, but when R.-and-B. divas dress men down, they're often a bit more real. Blues great Bessie Smith, in Hard Time Blues, sang about leaving a man with "dirty ways"; today Erykah Badu castigates her cell phone-hogging lover on her song Tyrone; TLC ridicules deadbeat men on No Scrubs, and the vocal group Destiny's Child cries out for men who can pay their girlfriends' Bills, Bills, Bills...