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...stars of the evening, Mahler, Ozawa, and Quivar, were not equally matched on Friday. Though Quivar sang the German words of the fourth movement very beautifully and powerfully, and with the skill one expects of a diva, she didn't have the means to express her performance as passionately as the members of the orchestra. They moved with all of their might to make sounds that impressed the audience, yet she, singing in between their music, remained almost motionless during her performance. This stiffness was directly contrasted if not highlighted by Ozawa's spirited conducting not a foot away from...
...Prisoner Education Program, approximately 35 students drive in a van to a medium security prison to tutor inmates. One Harvard student is paired with one inmate, a relationship which ideally lasts throughout the stay of the inmate. The curriculum ranges from basic math to advanced calculus, depending on the skill level of the tutee...
...wide set of issues, and in doing so helped to cast off the myopic haze which too often surrounds Harvard students. For one week, we were challenged to consider the plight not only of comfortable Ivy Leaguers, but also of oppressed students in Kosovo, Zapatistas in Chiapas, or low-skill workers...
Saddam used the crisis with surprising skill to leap out of his isolation in the Arab world. Egypt and Qatar sent senior envoys to Baghdad to plead for peace, and Saddam boosted his standing with his gulf neighbors by seeming to choose diplomacy over adventurism. By letting in hordes of international journalists, he made sure they would show and tell the story of the Iraqi people suffering under U.N. sanctions...
...Walsh's sense of icy machismo made him perfect for David Mamet's anomic world; the playwright gave Walsh his first big break when he cast him in the 1984 Broadway production of Glengarry Glen Ross. Walsh did not start acting until he was 30, yet he brought his skill to nearly 60 film roles, including a turn as John Ehrlichman in Nixon and recently as a redneck kidnapper in the 1997 thriller Breakdown...