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...when his accompanying singer, Sougata Banerjee, was unable to follow Jasraj’s rapid scalar flight between melodious high notes and the lowest notes of his three and a half octave range. Singing mostly in Hindi, Jasraj’s performance may have seemed completely alien to those unfamiliar with South Asian culture. And yet, while the vocals were indecipherable at times, the emotion was palpable, immersing the listener completely. Commencing slowly, with soft vocals and a steady tabla beat—a small pair of drums played expertly by Anuradha Pal—the music built gradually, becoming...
...Tully originally served as vice president to the presidency of Matt Thomas. But the former captain was dismissed from the team in June following assault charges against his ex-girlfriend, charges that made national news somewhat unfamiliar for a team relegated to the only conference that’s not postseason eligible in all of college football...
...most daring design centers in the U.S. Iconic buildings such as Sert’s Peabody Terrace and Le Corbusier’s Carpenter Center rose up in parallel with Harvard’s postwar intellectual boom. Harvard became an architectural rebel, dipping in to new experimental styles and unfamiliar designs in their sprawl across Cambridge...
...evolutionary theory, viruses, and cancers,” a Harvard spokesman said yesterday. “The University is not considering returning this gift.” Interim President Derek C. Bok, who served as University president from 1971 to 1991, wrote in an e-mail that he was unfamiliar with the specific details of Epstein’s donation, but stands by his 1979 open letter to the Harvard community stating his views of the ethics of accepting controversial gifts. In “extreme cases,” Bok wrote in the letter, Harvard should refuse contributions from...
Minority recruits unfamiliar with Survivor had to watch old seasons...