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...company’s spring concert includes original pieces by students as well as works by Boston choreographer Brenda Divelbliss, who leads weekly company-sponsored dance classes. The company draws on modern, hip-hop, jazz, ballet, and other styles for inspiration, and is the oldest student-controlled dance troop at Harvard. Friday and Saturday, April 24-25 at 8 p.m. $5. Rieman Center for the Performing Arts, Agassiz House, 10 Garden Street...
...implication that the media shelter the public from some news - or shelter that news from the public - is frustrating to journalists, in part because it's true. Reporting is full of noble and not-so-noble compromises. You keep troop movements secret. You leave certain subjects off limits in order to secure an exclusive with a certain ingenue. You don't ask a question that's begging to be asked - so you'll get called on at the next press conference. You do it out of decency or out of caution or, you tell yourself, to build the capital...
...haunted by the memory of those morning show anchors. The immediacy of the war hadn’t fazed them. Sounding chipper and grave by turns, they weaved the war in Iraq into Americans’ everyday lives as coolly as though reports on troop movements had always followed the weather forecast. Although I had been reading about the war in the newspaper and on the Internet, although I had briefly watched CNN’s “special coverage” over Fly-By peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in Loker Commons, I had not realized how thoroughly...
Instead, Charlie Rock is guarding swatches of desert where danger swirls like sand devils and then disappears. Sure, kids still pester the troops for candy and water. But the grownups aren't in a hospitable mood. In fact, small groups of Iraqi soldiers, many in plain clothes, are letting the heavy metal pass--70-ton M1A1 Abrams tanks and Bradley troop carriers--and lying in wait for the soft-skinned, lightly armed trucks hauling fuel, food and water. Every day, the journey to Baghdad stretches ever longer as Charlie Rock and other units like it that expected...
...Lowy is covering his first war. He's learning fast. Riding with the 1st Brigade of the Army's 101st Airborne Division, he was traveling north last week with hundreds of military vehicles in a ground-assault convoy (GAC). Alongside 15 soldiers, Lowy was in a troop carrier moving through stifling desert mornings and nights so cold that the men sometimes used plastic bottles of their own urine as hand warmers. "When I get out of here," he says, "I'm going to make up a T shirt that says I SURVIVED...