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...those citadels of the family dynasty. But the general public is not so amenable. According to a TIME/CNN poll, 61% of Americans oppose spending billions for the project. They think the money would be better spent at home. "So far out here, it's landed with a big thud," says a top Republican strategist in a key swing state. "People are saying 'Why can't we take care of our own first...
...MUSIC | THUD...
...Harvard Undergraduate Drummers, otherwise known as THUD, will perform a wide variety of percussion pieces, employing as instruments everything from cardboard boxes and plastic cups to vibraphones and bongos. Most of the music is original composition by the group members, and by director Julian O. S. Carlo ‘04. This year they will perform a version of their famous Cups piece with an unprecedented 12 performers. 8 p.m. Tickets $3. Lowell Lecture Hall...
This is the first time at Harvard I’ve felt truly invested in a musical group. Freshman and sophomore years I played in and managed THUD, The Harvard University Drummers, but I was never as attached to that group as I feel to HRO. Perhaps this is a function of the fact that, to me, a symphony is inherently more stirring than a percussion quintet. Emotion runs higher and deeper with a group this large and with works of greater scope...
...moneyed establishment in the next round of the playoffs, the moaning establishment is already prepared for a long off-season to stew over their eventual loss. Even post-season perfection cannot cure the Curse of the Bambino, after all, and spite and resignation work wonders to dampen the thud of mediocrity...