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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...
MARCIA MOROCCO Thousand Oaks, Calif...
...WHRB president at the time, told The Crimson in December 1956, “have made people come to expect high-quality reproduction.” Broadcasting on FM would allow WHRB to achieve the level of quality its listeners expected. And though the station had to raise several thousand dollars to purchase the new technology, the greater listening audience allowed WHRB to increase its advertising rates.WHRB’s leadership continued to repeatedly stress that the station would still cater to the Harvard community.“Even with FM,” Andrew told The Crimson...
...busy, too, you know-like with my lecture circuit you won't attend," Gore said, alphabetically ticking off some of the thousand-plus places where he had recently shown slides of melting icebergs, eroding coastlines, and flooded New Orleans streets. When he hit Geneva, Switzerland, Bush interjected...
...three years since then, some things in Congo have improved. Mining firms have returned, and cell-phone companies--particularly welcome in a country that has just a few thousand fixed lines serving more than 60 million people--are doing a booming business. But in some parts of the country, the fighting has never really stopped. The U.N.'s peacekeeping force has got tougher in the past year, chasing rebels and apprehending or even killing them, but the force lacks the numbers to impose complete order. Congolese troops who are supposed to be helping the U.N. peacekeepers have proved ineffective...