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From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China...
...Henry I. Stern ’04 is a history concentrator affiliated with Eliot House...
What they've come to expect is a more expressive conducting style than that of his sometimes stern-faced predecessor, Dutchman Edo de Waart. Gelmetti's performance of Ravel's Bol?ro two years ago has already passed into Sydney folklore. Loose of hip, his stomach thrust forward, he seemed to coax Ravel's rhapsodic wave out of his shoulders. Seeing him perform the same piece with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra a year before, the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel went so far as to say, "Gelmetti conducts with his stomach." Whatever the case, his expansive enjoyment of the music is infectious...
Confronting the impact of eating disorders on obesity research, public policy and societal attitudes toward fatness, Critser dismisses research claiming that parents fear that their children will acquire body image issues if they discuss weight problems. He quotes Judith Stern, a professor of nutrition at the University of California at Davis, who argues that “the number of kids with eating disorders is positively dwarfed by the numbers with obesity...
...discovery that a Pakistani ring supplied some of the world's worst governments with nuclear technology only served to emphasize the contradictory nature of our "friendship" with that fragile country. "It's true the Pakistanis have helped us to capture some of the leading al-Qaeda figures," says Jessica Stern of Harvard, a terrorism expert. "But you also have to wonder: Why do we find them all in Pakistan...