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...excitement of a fellow bench mate, who inadvertently registered amazement as the male soloist began singing in a surprisingly bass voice. Although the songs were in a foreign language, the emotion in the soloists’ voices enveloped the audience in the universality of music.A similar contagion spread during the performance of the Kuumba Singers, a large-scale choir that explores the musical tradition of African folk songs, spirituals, and gospel. Their performance featured three distinct vocal groups, whose juxtaposed parts harmonized perfectly.Throughout the evening, Hancock shared a diverse array of personal anecdotes about everything from his wife, whom...
...drummer Matthew Antolick, and The OaKs were born. The group donated 50 percent of the profit from their 2006 debut album “Our Fathers and The Things They Left Behind” to charities helping Afghan refugees. Now, with their sophomore effort, The OaKs have returned to spread their message to the mass audience it deserves...
...assertions of rights over land by peasants are potentially transformational. "They're not widespread now but they could become symbolic ... of peasants ceasing to depend on the law and instead depending on 'natural law.'" Journalist and author Chen Guidi is more blunt: "If word of these declarations starts to spread to peasants around the countryside, it could become uncontrollable." Chen, with his wife Wu Chuntao, is the author of Will the Boat Sink the Water? - a widely praised investigation into conditions in rural China. (The book is banned in China...
...because it is largely scurrilous. It has to do with Obama's patriotism. There is a segment of the American populace that just can't get past his name. There are Internet sleaze purveyors - a few, sadly, with roots in the Jewish community - who have exploited this fact to spread slanderous nonsense about Obama. Hillary Clinton disgraced herself by playing into these innuendos by telling 60 Minutes that Obama isn't Islamic "as far as I know." Over the past few weeks, though, both Barack and Michelle Obama have given ammunition to the smear artists. Michelle's moment...
...solution to recent budget constraints poses a serious threat to students’ health. For example, white pasta has emerged as a regular staple in at least one of the three entrée offerings at lunch and dinner. HUDS has admitted to using white pasta to spread out leftover ingredients, or, as HUDS spokeswoman Crista Martin put it in a recent Crimson article, “not leftover foods, but their components.” White pasta has minimal nutritional value. It sits at the top of the “Healthy Eating Pyramid” devised by nutrition...