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...they dared, if there were no consequences, no censorious adult monitoring them. His tone of impish hell-raising seems out of place amid all the agonizing analysands - Peter-Spider, Flint-Sandman and Harry-Goblin - seeking to purge their inner demons, receive absolution for their sins. In this very serious movie, only Grace and Raimi regular Bruce Campbell, in a nice cameo as a varry Franch maitre d', seem to be having the outsize fun normally associated with comic-book capers...
...model is in doubt. "We thought we had developed the ability to democratically resolve our issues," says Hakan Altinay, director of the Open Society Institute, a pro-democracy group in Istanbul. "We can't say that now. A society that cannot reach a consensus on its own has a serious problem." Mark Parris, a former U.S. ambassador to Turkey and a scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, echoes his concern, warning that for Turkish democracy the stakes "could not be higher. We're heading into a highly polarizing and divisive campaign in which the outcome is unclear...
...from Classics from then on, focusing instead on his passion for music.Adams studied under Leon Kirchner, a professor of musical composition and composer who Adams says had a definitive impact on his education at Harvard, for better and for worse. “He was tall, very handsome. Terribly serious. He didn’t have much interest or connection with American popular music,” Adams says of Kirchner. “We would study contemporary classical music and try to come to terms with a style that was so dissonant and then go back to our rooms...
...attend my own graduation, but then again, maybe I won’t. DA hardly spends anytime at school anymore, flying between cities negotiating a record deal for his band, and I don’t even live on campus at all. It turns out they’re serious about the “within 100 yards of a school” rule. It was less than 24 hours from the time I was caught peering into DeWolfe windows with my binoculars to me living like a troll under Weeks Footbridge. It is so humiliating for me to call...
...what life could be like doing this. It was one of those moments I’ll never forget,” says Jackiw. Jackiw, who will graduate from Harvard this semester, will also receive an Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory (NEC). Although many serious musicians choose to go to a conservatory over a liberal arts school, Jackiw wanted the experience of both. “A lot of people who are serious about music go to arts high schools or are home-schooled,” says Jackiw, explaining the difference between himself and other young musicians...