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...Sentimental Music.”Last year, Adams had the country abuzz with the premiere of “Doctor Atomic,” his opera about J. Robert Oppenheimer ’25 and the morality behind weapons of mass destruction. Likewise, he came under national spotlight when the New York Philharmonic asked him to write a memorial piece for Sept. 11 in 2002. He snagged the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in Music for that piece. While the two works on this album do not have the overt political significance of his Pulitzer Prize-winning, 9/11-themed...
...Dean] was cleaning out the Agassiz, and she’s found the spotlight that was used at the very first Woodstock,” says Nicholas J. Shearer...
...from China. Hopefully, the immediacy of this most recent crisis will make China’s surreptitious support for the North Korea—and other nuclear hopefuls, such as Iran—increasingly untenable. China’s relationship with North Korea has now been thrust into the spotlight, potentially laying the groundwork for more meaningful resolutions than have been achieved in the past. Largely isolated from the rest of the international community, North Korea depends on China’s extensive economic cooperation for any semblance of stability. China has a strong incentive for its close ties with...
...Silk Road Project’s second annual on-campus festival kicks off today, with a free concert and film screening that spotlight China’s influence on the arts. Eight years ago, cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76 founded the project, which derives its name from the renowned trade route that traversed Asia. Its artistic and educational programs promote diversity and collaboration of cultural styles. The three-day festival this week, known as the “residency program” at Harvard, is part of the project’s five-year collaboration with...
...create. It ostensibly wishes to grant women privacy, yet publicly broadcasts the names, faces, and personal stories of women who have had abortions. The legal defense of abortion rests on a strong veil between the public and private. Yet Ms. Magazine relishes in thrusting these women into the spotlight. Moderate pro-choicers everywhere should be embarrassed. Ms. Magazine celebrates abortion as a liberating act of feminism, a truly revolutionary tenor to strike even amidst the cacophonous abortion debates. Most Americans—pro-life and pro-choice—don’t like abortion and they especially don?...