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...roaming broadband and speed punk. During the past two years, he and his team have compressed epic Kunqu scripts until they play about as long as the average movie, and introduced other innovations. The changes are finally starting to draw respectable audiences of curious Shanghainese. At last summer's three-week run of Palace of Eternal Youth, a Tang dynasty love tragedy, two thirds of the audience were under the age of 35, and the production netted $92,000 - modest by the standards of Covent Garden or La Scala, but equal to the Shanghai Kunqu Opera Theatre's revenue...
...semester away from completing his bachelor’s degree in music. During his time at Harvard, Fienning made his mark through a variety of extracurricular activities. In 2006, as an active member of the Phillips Brooks House Association, he served as co-director for Refugee Youth Summer Enrichment—a summer program that teaches English to immigrants in Boston high schools. And he raised more than $900 for this spring’s Harvard College Marathon Challenge, which funds Boston-area youth. “For Henry, service was a natural response to need,” Roger...
...grants instantly brought the discourse about alcohol to a new level among students. Concerns about the UC party grant program had been raised by both House Masters and residential deans last spring. The deans and the UC Executive Board continued to work together in apparent good faith over the summer to make the necessary changes to appease all the major stake-holding parties...
...Petersen says he learned only after Pilbeam’s announcement that the Office of the General Counsel had been providing the deans of the College with extensive legal advice over the summer. “They did not tell Dean Kidd or [Assistant Dean of Harvard College] Paul McLoughlin that the program was illegal,” says Petersen, “Rather, based on its assessment, Dean Kidd and Paul McLoughlin determined that the party grant program must be discontinued...
When Marion R. Holmes ’06 left her summer job in New Hampshire to start anew at a West Coast environmental education center in August, she was bracing for a change. But she was not quite ready for the uncertainty of being evacuated from her home less than two months later, a result of one of the several California wildfires that have raged through the southern part of the state this week. The fires have blackened some 645 square miles in seven counties and led to the evacuation of half a million people, including many members...