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...such as Juilliard, but instead they chose to supplement their music training with a strong focus in academia. Serving as an advisor to the admissions committee, Yannatos is able to preview the music of prospective students giving him a role not unlike that of an athletic coach in the selection of admitted students. Yannatos also spends an inordinate amount of time at the beginning of each year to select the newest members of HRO. “He always likes to listen to people individually,” says Stephanie R. Hurder...
...rely on memorials to deal with his grief. But he found solace in choosing the design for the World Trade Center (WTC) memorial. Van Valkenburgh, the Charles Eliot Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), was one of 13 jurors to select the design that will eventually commemorate those who died on Sept...
...North Korean prisoner told the BBC that she’d once been commanded to poison dozens of fellow inmates. “An officer ordered me to select 50 healthy female prisoners,” Sun-ok Lee claimed. “One of the guards handed me a basket full of soaked cabbage, told me not to eat it but to give it to the 50 women.” She went on: “All who ate the cabbage leaves started violently vomiting blood and screaming with pain. It was hell. In less than 20 minutes...
There do exist, however, a select group of soldiers who do not flinch at these concussions—men who have wanted to be warriors since the days they were born. While everyone else is sorting mail or reheating potato wedges for the 10th consecutive day, these Special Forces operatives are hunting insurgents in the middle of the night. On my last night in Baghdad, the self-proclaimed “secret squirrels” of Iraq invited my group to dinner at one of Saddam’s water palaces (they had been living there since February...
...Powell's comments came long before the stubborn insurgency took root, and before the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council failed to achieve either legitimacy or consensus. And long before the U.S. changed its plans, opting to replace the IGC with a new provisional government at caucuses of select Iraqis. Longer, still, even before the collapse of that revised plan in the face of determined opposition from the Shiite majority, whose spiritual leaders have demanded direct elections. Right now, the only aspect of the U.S. transition plan devised last November that remains on track is the June 30 date for dissolving...