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...about her decision to enter the uncertain world of the music industry, but in 1987, Brown received an offer she could not refuse. Alison Krauss, who had just released her first solo album as a bluegrass singer and fiddler, invited Brown to join her on a tour with the Union Station band as their banjo player. Brown toured with the ensemble for the next three years and their first gig brought back to the gates of Harvard in Sanders Theatre.SERENDIPITYIn short order, Brown began receiving accolades from the professional music industry for her playing. In 1991, she collected the most...
...Cold War language,” Ross said, “They did their best to try to play on people’s fears that if this passed the Soviet Union would take over Cambridge or something...
...committed to what its own government has dubbed a “peaceful rise.” China’s dual-pronged espionage campaign remains menacing. First, Chinese hackers conduct extensive cyber-warfare. Second, China gathers human intelligence in a manner markedly different from the former Soviet Union. Whereas the KGB extracted sensitive information from a few carefully chosen assets, China’s Ministry of State Security uses a web of informers in businesses, educational institutions, and governments, many of whom probably don’t even consider their actions to be “spying...
...request—the Republican party has shown such open-mindedness before. Often distortedly portrayed as an ideologue and willing captive of his age by both his admirers and nemeses, Ronald Reagan was extraordinarily skilled at finding middle grounds and weighing trade-offs. He could both condemn the Soviet Union and work constructively on disarmament with its leader, Mikhail Gorbachev...
...outside of the problem set. One week, I decided—at the last minute—to attend a talk by President Sarkozy on affirmative action. Another time I restructured my afternoon in order to listen to former President Giscard D’Estaing speak on the European Union...