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Salman Rushdie, whose 1988 novel “The Satanic Verses” triggered the Supreme Leader of Iran to issue a fatwa against him that sentenced Rushdie to death and forced him into hiding for many years, braved the Harvard community Friday night to speak at Memorial Church for what he described as a “little black Sabbath.” Rushdie’s appearance at Memorial Church was the first event of the three-day long conference called “The New Humanism” hosted by the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard University. Humanism...
...here we are, with Nine Inch Nails’ 24th “halo” (or, in non-NIN speak, their fifth full-length release). Mastermind Trent Reznor has come a long way from his humble beginnings as a studio janitor. Thousands of rabid fans worldwide have been counting the days until “Year Zero’s” release, but a cautionary note to those same listeners: this is not the norm for Reznor and co.—and the change might be hard to swallow. As a concept album dealing with religion, mind...
...wasn’t allowed to speak about apartheid at cocktail parties in South Africa,” she said at a press conference after her award ceremony. Unwilling to compromise and join the Foreign Service, Schoonmaker moved to New York and answered an ad for an assistant film editor, chiefly due to her childhood love of film...
...like they are alone in tragedies like these,” Gomes, who is also the Pusey minister in Memorial Church, said in an interview before the event. “It’s a natural thing for people to want to come together, so I want to speak to the nature of community and how one deals with fear in the middle of that community.” Students have struggled with how to cope with the continually updated news of the shooting, as more and more of the details of the tragedy have come out over...
...simply turned her away, without asking her who she was. They had no idea that she was a witness. So she walked across campus to her chemistry lab. It wasn't until she arrived in class, and a friend texted her to say that the police were looking to speak with her, that she realized the enormity of what had happened that morning...