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...thousand horsemen will put on a spectacular equestrian show there on the festival eve, July 10. The next morning, Naadam will begin with a recital by 800 morin huur players (the morin huur, a two-stringed fiddle, is Mongolia's national instrument) and a performance by 800 singers of "long songs" - the hypnotic vocal music of the country's vast steppes. There are plenty of other musical performances plus a huge array of food and craft stalls. But horse racing, wrestling and archery make up the bulk of the events at Naadam. Some say that the festival has its origins...
...Hovering over the entire saga is the question of whether it's such a good idea now to have an economic chair named after Ken Lay, given Enron?s spectacular collapse. Members of the alumni board have bandied about the question of retracting Lay's name. Although discussions with Lay are ongoing, the university is required by its agreement to honor the name. Lay's family has a longtime connnection with Missouri: his late mother worked at the university bookstore while his father, a Baptist preacher, had strong ties to the community in Columbia. "It's not the university...
...been working on firming up the second part of the race and having the possibility of sprinting,” said senior seven-seat Alex Phillips. “We didn’t have that in our bag of tricks at that point. And it was an absolutely spectacular loss...
...ignorant Associated Press story last year, headlined “Harvard Joins Evolution Debate,” which implied that Harvard researchers’ work on the origins of raw molecular rudiments had something to do with science’s account of the origins of species. A more spectacular example of willful wrongness involves elementary textual interpretation. The U.S.’ current executive branch is working under a dead-wrong theory about the nature of its power. (A new book by Glenn Greenwald lays out the details.) The constitutional arguments underlying recent claims of unfettered and unreviewable executive...
...GSAS graduate who identified as a male while attending Harvard, and who rallied in support of Harvard’s policy change last month, won the “BGLTS Person of the Year Award” at last night’s event. “So much spectacular stuff is going on,” she said, stating that 31 percent of the U.S. population currently lives in legal jurisdictions where transgender individuals are protected from discrimination. She said that proportion was only 5 percent in 2002. But the movement still faces challenges. Keisling said that 57 percent...