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...Hindi and displaying his incredible vocal range. The show began with a standing ovation from the expectant audience who, despite the near half-hour delay, were still enthusiastic. He then sought the audience’s prayers for a successful performance. What ensued were three hours of music that Samir V. Rao ’08, co-presidentof Sangeet, referred to as “bliss.” At times, the listeners appeared to be more serious than the performers, casting disapproving glances when a child’s cries interrupted their musical experience even as Jasraj himself provoked...
...Yard is to offer them iPods. Take this year’s Freshman A Capella Jam. Crimson Key set up a white screen, and freshmen willing to forego shame and shake their respective groove thangs competed for one of those shiny pieces of electric goodness in a dance-off. Samir J. Paul ’10, a participant in the booty-shaking bonanza, explains why he was willing to put his money maker on the line for an iPod. “The iPod has a cultural cachet that few other MP3 players can even dream of competing with...
...Dell are in his world, and they have well-established sales networks, a full range of products and famous brand names, especially in the U.S. "We joke, 'Lenovo who?' The challenge is that Lenovo doesn't have a brand name in the U.S.," says Samir Bhavnani, director of research at tech-information provider Current Analysis in San Diego. Even worse, Lenovo is being buffeted by the some- times tense relations between the West and China. In May the U.S. State Department said 16,000 PCs it had purchased from Lenovo wouldn't be used for classified work after a Congressman...
...nasty crew. Consider what prompted Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah to arrange for the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers on July 12, which is what led to the current crisis. Nasrallah says he wants Israel to release from prison Samir Kuntar, a Lebanese citizen who was part of a Palestine Liberation Organization (P.L.O.) cell that in 1979 arrived by boat in the northern Israeli town of Nahariya and invaded the apartment of the Haran family. Smadar Haran hid in the attic with her daughter Yael, 2, and was so intent on stifling the girl's crying that she accidentally suffocated...
...came out publicly in support of the 1993 Oslo peace accord between Israel and Yasser Arafat's PLO, though Samir Kuntar's cell was part of the organization. "I really believed the Palestinians were ready to live in peace with us,"she says. Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin invited her to attend the Washington signing ceremony with him, but at the last minute she pulled out, unable to face the idea of meeting Arafat. After seeing Rabin off at the airport, she returned to Nahariya and placed olive branches on the graves of her daughters and husband. Rabin...