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...laughs, it’s nothing new from Bret and Jemaine. For fans of their hit TV show “Flight of the Conchords,” their eponymous debut album will likely just be sort of a season-in-song disc, but for those unfamiliar with the HBO series the laughs might be a little out of context. With the new season right around the corner, it would have been nice to see a preview of things to come, but any fan devoted enough (and there are many) to buy the album instead of?...
...Harvard to come see the show. “I think that this year, part of our intention is to bring more non-Latinos to this show,” Pacheno says. “I think this year it would be great to see a lot of unfamiliar faces.”Faculty Advisor Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante, an assistant professor of Romance Languages and Literatures who will be presenting the Latino/a of the Year awards, also commented on the show’s ability to act as a bridge between two cultures. “[Presencia...
...enters the final Ivy League weekend of the 2008 season, the Harvard baseball team finds itself in an unfamiliar position: playing the role of scrappy spoiler and taking the field with only pride to earn...
...stepping-stone to his expected confirmation as Prime Minister on May 8. And if there was something rather Soviet about the rituals of the congress of the dominant party in Russia's legislature, the new distribution of power between Putin and his successor, President Dimitri Medvedev, is not entirely unfamiliar. Putin has made no secret of the fact that he envisages his new role as that of a head of government, nor do any observers of Russian politics doubt that Putin, rather than Medvedev, will be in charge...
...couldn’t help but silently apologize for being afraid of the ‘trespasser’, for hesitating before I shook his hand, and for regretting making eye contract in the first place. We should never be so smug in our privilege that contact with that unfamiliar Other becomes a source of distaste. And while it may seem futile and even self-indulgent to sit uncomfortably in an armchair in William James feeling guilty, the opportunity for honest confrontation of our privilege as Harvard undergraduates will prove worthwhile as long as it informs future interactions with those...