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...40th anniversary of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s death, six student leaders came together to discuss the intersection of race and politcs. After Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s March 18 speech on race in America, three Cabot House resident tutors decided to organize a discussion in response. “Barack Obama’s speech really opened up a space for conversations like these to happen,” said Monique-Adelle Callahan, a Cabot resident tutor. “We had to take advantage of the momentum it produced...
...population today is only 25 families, most of whose adult members work for the training program. They include role players in the action scenarios, like Annalisa Kvamme, a mother of five, who played the blond woman wearing the suicide-bomber vest. Living in Playas has its challenges: six children in town are bused to Animas, 20 miles away, for school. It's 37 miles to the nearest supermarket, 85 miles to a two-screen movie theater. The town has a Baptist church and a bowling alley named Copper Pins, where beer and wine will go on sale next month...
...climax, piano tinkles in the background, and the whole song seems to swoon. In this same vein, the Yo La Tengo-esque “My Favorite Year,” with its pulsating drone, high-pitched echoes, and swirling piano, proves that Bejar can still write a six-minute epic that doesn’t sound a second too long.Closing track “Libby’s Sunrise”—a blemish on an otherwise pristine album—illustrates one of Bejar’s occasional problems: his endless flourishes can sound tacked...
...sorry if I accosted you before my trip to Japan. Over spring break I traveled to Tokyo with the Harvard College in Asia Program (HCAP), a student group that organizes social, cultural, and academic exchange programs between Harvard and six universities throughout Asia, and I was more than determined to turn HCAP into a culinary pilgrimage. I asked everyone who had lived in or visited Japan to list the best restaurants in the city—a layover in Osaka or a grandmother at the base of Mount Fuji counted you as an expert enough. I emailed Professor Ted Bestor...
...Polls in this union-heavy state show Clinton has been, so far, winning that message war, but Obama - who has spent the last six days traversing the state - is rapidly catching up. She leads Obama by 6 percentage points, down from 17 points earlier this week, according to an average of Pennsylvania polls by Real Clear Politics, a non-partisan website that tracks the election. Yet the latest Survey USA poll shows Clinton leading Obama 71% to 23% in the state's union-dense northeastern Rust Belt - the only region where she gained ground in that poll...