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...primped to win a cross-country race against a nearby prep school. Coming down the last stretch, he’s got a solid lead; no one doubts he’ll win. As he tires, images run through his mind of his bleak life: his harried and shrill mother, his dead father, the cash he swiped from a bakery, the copper who nabbed him, the condescending director who’s dangled the prospect of an Olympic future or at least better treatment in the present. A few yards from the finish line, he stops. A crooked grin spreads...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: Angry Men | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

Ramesh's announcement raised the decibel level in an already shrill debate. Many of India's farmers say they oppose Bt brinjal because the seeds are expensive and would have to be purchased every year, rather than something they could harvest themselves from the previous year's crop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What an Eggplant Uproar Says About India's Economy | 2/15/2010 | See Source »

Larry D. Arbuthnott ’10 was woken from his afternoon nap by his grandmother's worried shrill: “Turn on the news! I think there's been an earthquake in Haiti...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Lends Helping Hands to a Shaken Country | 1/15/2010 | See Source »

...power, though, is neither its scope nor its journalistic merit. Rather, the importance of “Eating Animals” lies in the depth and nuance of Foer’s argument and in the portrait he sketches of animal agriculture as it stands today. Foer is occasionally shrill in his denunciation of factory farms, but his examination of animal welfare representatives—a vegan activist, several “ethical farmers” and a small slaughterhouse owner—is both more in-depth and more critically engaged, if for no other reason than...

Author: By Abigail B. Lind, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Silent Suffering of ‘Animals’ | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

...corners of the podium as he gestured for biting brass punches to give way to penetrating piccolo runs and rumbling timpani rolls, all of which punctuated violin parts frenetic enough to break a few strings along the way. The brass section was assertive and bold, but never shrill in its approach, inserting sarcastic staccatos in the most traditionally irreverent of places. Luisi urged the ensemble to a pleasantly deafening climax, raising questions as to why the BSO doesn’t program entertaining pieces like these more often...

Author: By Monica S. Liu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Guests Bring Flair To Traditional BSO | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

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