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...same time had journalism internships with five major publications, which obviously seem to pertain much more to your present occupation. Did your academic concentration influence your current job at all?JL: Definitely, in certain ways. Applied math is really hard. Most of the time, you didn’t understand what your professor was saying and had to have your TF explain it to you later. So at a certain point, your attitude becomes, “I’m pretty intelligent. So if I’m not understanding what you’re explaining to me, it?...
...Everett’s control: the Sunday Jazz Band, for less experienced students, and the Monday Jazz Band, for more advanced musicians. AN OPPORTUNITY SUPREMEAs Everett’s group continued to add new members, he also started using his connections outside the University to encourage his students to understand jazz as a living art form. Over the years, Everett has brought such luminaries as Jerry Mulligan and Benny Carter to practice and perform with students. “This is Harvard University. You study with Pulitzer Prize-winning writers and Nobel Prize-winning chemists,” Everett says...
...insignificant because “the Bush years were winding down disgracefully, the Iraq war was lost, the Middle East was lost, the environment was lost.” Only through the prism of ideas can the world be approached, Gessen seems to communicate. Only through ideas can man understand the world; only by rethinking the world can man exercise a modicum of power within it. And at its core, the novel is about power, about control, about controlling one’s own life, whether through writing a novel or making lists or having babies to ensure...
...share our culture with the other members of the group and the Harvard community,” according to David Garcia ’09, who plays the guitarron, a Mexican bass. “We sing in Spanish, even though we don’t understand what we’re singing,” Yapp says. But according to Viramontes, understanding the language is secondary. “The music communicates what the song it trying to say,” she says. Established in 2001, Mariachi Veritas has grown rapidly. It began as a little group...
...sophomore year, will be performing with THUD in Lowell Lecture Hall today. Bray says that her top priority is the audience. “With everything we do, we just think: Is that entertaining? Is that funny? Would I want to watch that, if I didn’t understand the rhythm behind it?” Bray enjoys the variety of THUD’s repertoire, which ranges from virtuosic classical pieces to numbers the members arrange themselves, combining their favorite pop songs and STOMP-inspired pieces. She points to one THUD collaboration, written by its female members, that...