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Retired Harvard professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Donald Martino, widely respected for his atonal works, died on Thursday aboard a cruise ship in the Caribbean off the coast of Antigua. He was 74. The death was caused by cardiac arrest, which was brought about by complications with his diabetes and occurred while he was vacationing with Lora Martino, his wife of 36 years. Born in Plainfield, N.J. in 1931, Martino taught music for over 20 years. Martino joined the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard in 1983 after teaching at Princeton, Yale, The New England Conservatory, and Brandeis...
...Brown and Yale brought Dartmouth within a game of .500, but three losses in the last four contests have set the team back once again. “They’re reeling a little bit right now,” Donato said. “After getting the ship righted and playing some real good hockey, they’ve lost a [few] in a row.” “But they’re a very proud team, a very talented team,” he added. “Obviously, [when] you look at their...
...year program in the near future that would not only offer a generous stipend but a Masters in Education as well!A common quip heard in education schools nowadays is that if we really wanted to “teach for America,” we’d ship the greenhorn college grads back to teach in the rich, suburban schools from which so many originate and send the well-trained suburban teachers off to poorer, urban schools where the students might most benefit from them. Such a strategy is probably impossible, but it underscores a question about...
...president, Scott S. Cowen, wrote in a message on the university’s website that 86 percent of the students are expected to return when the school reopens in January. Housing facilities devastated by the floods have forced the school to host some students in cruise ships on the Mississippi River next semester. “It seems a little bit out of the water to me. I know I would definitely not want to be housed on a cruise ship. The motion sickness would hit me hard,” Amy C. McClendon, a visiting Tulane freshman, wrote...
...Lackner] did that tonight and it was huge.” Coupled with its consistency woes, Harvard has also been a slow starter during its four-game losing streak, scoring only 163 points in the first half, compared to 248 in the second. Righting the Crimson’s ship will be no easy task. Not only does Harvard have to worry about its own problems, but it must also contend with Beantown rival Boston University to break the slide tonight. The Terriers beat Brown in Providence, 73-59, last week before a close loss at Indiana broke a five...