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...voted for the original color, and on May 27 The Magenta renamed itself The Harvard Crimson. On May 23, 1910, the Corporation officially decreed crimson the University’s color. Union College, thinking that Harvard was keeping magenta, had long since changed its color to garnet, a brownish shade...
...true that many child molesters were molested as children, the numbers are pretty muddy. Therapists who work with abusers report that anywhere from a third to three-quarters of their patients claim to have been victims of molestation--imprecise figures made even more so by the molesters' incentive to shade the truth. "Certain stimuli early in life seem to fuse the ideas of childhood and sexual arousal," says Fran Ferder, a psychologist and Catholic nun who teaches theology and psychology at Seattle University. The early onset of the condition argues against the popular idea that priests who abuse kids...
...piece in particular had the dancers perfectly representing the sounds of the music with the movements of their bodies: “Percussive Us,” choreographed by Jeff Shade, Dance Program instructor and Bob Fosse protégé. In this piece, Shade used music by Jim Perry that was a series of percussion riffs strung together. The dancers wore black costumes and moved in unison to different drumbeats at the beginning of the number. As the beat or the instrument in the song changed, the dancers adapted their movements to embody each particular instrument...
...Akbar is editor in chief of The Asian Age. His next book, The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the Conflict Between Islam and Christianity, will be published...
When McFerrin was underpinned by some of the campus’ musical groups, he revealed a different shade of his vocal talent. Instead of trying to imitate an entire strings section, he let the Baroque Chamber Orchestra assume that position in the evening’s first act, and occupied the position of imitating solo violinist, enlisting cellist Kate Bennet in an ethereally beautiful, if entirely unconventional duet...