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...Written at the beginning of the 18th century, the Baroque opera narrates an Ancient Greek myth about a mortal protagonist whose jealousy for her divine lover costs her her life. But Harvard Early Music Society’s production of “Semele,” which ran this past weekend at the New College Theatre, manages to spruce up the antiquated setting quite a bit, perhaps predictably arranging the action in America’s own period of mythical free love and divine (ahem, drug-induced) revelation: the groovy 1970s. Nuanced but still exciting, “Semele?...
...meantime, it appeared Friday that Smith’s calls for cost-cutting measures last spring—when deficit estimates ran as high as $220 million over a two-year period—had paid some dividends...
...positive results from [Fiscal Year] 09 allow us more time to implement...strategies so that we can bring our finances back into balance.” In the meantime, it appeared from the report that Smith’s calls for cost-cutting measures last spring, when deficit estimates ran as high as $220 million over a two-year period, had paid some dividends. In addition to the one-time injections of cash in the last fiscal year, FAS achieved a small unrestricted surplus from various savings measures—allowing FAS to grow its reserves by $58.6 million. These...
...Kabul University, where election excitement ran high before the Aug. 20 vote, students shrugged off the next round, citing a lack of faith in the process. "We have a problem with these politicians," says Abdul Jabar, 23, a student of Dari literature. "There will be very low turnout because the people have no trust." Ali Farhan, 25, a law student, agrees, saying he won't vote. And Darab Raofi, 20, in the social sciences school, says the whole issue has become boring. "We are talking about the same thing happening again and again. I voted the last time...
...storm hit on Sept. 26 - nearly double the number of cases in the span of just a month than is usual for the whole last year. "We expected cases to rise because of the unusually heavy flooding, but we were not prepared for the numbers and we eventually ran out of testing kits," said Eumelia Salva, head of San Lazaro's public health services...