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...realize our increasingly ambitious objectives.” Last April, staffers in Mora’s office were notified by e-mail that she would leave Harvard in mid-May. With no explanation given for the sudden nature of the announcement, her staff expressed confusion. The University remained notably silent on the issue, and both Mora and Shore repeatedly refused requests for interviews. The resignation came at a time of increasing turnover in Harvard’s highest administrative positions. Shore previously served as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, where he worked with clients in the fields of higher education...
...SPAN On the first morning of the Democratic National Convention, all the cable-news outfits were yakking about what Hillary Clinton might say--except one. On C-SPAN? Empty chairs on a silent stage. It was waiting for someone to show up and actually say something. This was the only channel on which a citizen could watch all the convention speeches. Plus, it airs Prime Minister's Questions, my all-time-favorite sitcom. (No offense, Larry David...
...Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo, who has long been accused by feminists of being a silent accomplice in her daughter's alleged abuse, are fighting back with a Sandinista inquisition. Ortega has used all his tentacles - Sandinista media outlets, government ministries and fanatical party structures - to investigate, slander and harass Nicaragua's feminist movement, which is being informally accused of everything from money laundering and conspiring with the CIA, to "illegally" promoting abortion, pornography and "assassinating children...
...innovation was bringing a grande piano onstage and a brilliant musician, Freda Locker, to sit at it.The piece d’occasion fared much better. Set to Chopin, “Rhyme”—a world premiere choreographed by Viktor Plotnikov—began with slow, silent movement, with the dancers captured in spotlights like snapshots. This set the stage for a moving and harmonious pas de deux with shockingly acrobatic movements accomplished with the greatest degree of finesse and taste. The highlight was certainly Larissa Ponomarenko’s highly arched instep beating the ground...
...said. “I can’t think of anything else in the world I’d rather do. And you don’t have to be proficient at an instrument to do that.”Previn also discussed his humble beginnings accompanying silent films on the piano. His recounting of one instance in which he unwittingly played a Tiger Rag in conjunction with a scene of Christ’s crucifixion drew much laughter, as did several of his other forthright comments. “I’ve made over...