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...Holden Choir choral groups perform early music pieces on a regular basis.The Chamber Singers, a subgroup of Collegium Musicum, is currently under the direction of Emily C. Zazulia ’06 and has focused on fifteenth and sixteenth century music this year. Zazulia says she has enjoyed introducing unfamiliar material to a new audience: “It is wonderful to see the way that newcomers fall in love with this music. They’ll say ‘Wow, I didn’t even know this sort of music existed. It’s beautiful...
...ways to be informed, entertained or otherwise diverted.Yet this is not enough, not when new sources of “content,” as the information industry likes to call creative endeavors and conversations, are flooding into our homes and offices. How can we find useful news from unfamiliar sources, for example? What—whom—can we trust? Luckily, the Daily Me is evolving into what we might think of as a “Daily We” where recommendations from the wider community supplement our own selections in a collaborative filtering process.Websites such...
...evolution" of the nation's military toward the "harder side" of peacemaking. "We're going into [the Taliban's] yard," says Brigadier General Fraser, who commanded the Mechanized Brigade Group in Edmonton, Alta., before his assignment to Afghanistan. "We're going to start kicking them." Those were unfamiliar messages for Canadians accustomed to seeing themselves in the post-cold war world as benign peacekeepers. And it has enraged critics who say the Afghan enterprise was wrongheaded from the start. "Trying to stabilize an environment like Afghanistan isn't doable in a war-fighting situation," says Peggy Mason of the Pearson...
...Dole (whose spouse is a North Carolina Senator), along with Madeleine Albright's lobbying shop, have advised DP World. Clinton has described the U.A.E. as a model Middle East government and in 2002 gave two speeches in Dubai, pulling in $450,000. Nor is the Bush Administration unfamiliar with DP World. Critics grouse that Treasury Secretary John Snow's former company, transportation giant CSX, sold its international port operations to DP World in 2004, for $1.15 billion. Dubai also works with the Carlyle Group, the Washington-based investment firm stocked with former government insiders...
...least when it comes to campus politics. Harvard undergraduates, some of the brightest (and most opinionated) young minds in the world, are, on average, surprisingly uninformed of the goings-on in Mass. Hall and University Hall. Most students float from class to dining halls to sections to dorms, largely unfamiliar with what is happening on their own campus. When Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby announced his resignation at the end of January, students hardly took note. Most either felt it didn’t matter, or they asked, “Kirby who?” Never mind...