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...bossa nova singer Wilson Simonal, also made a splash with his album Samba Raro. Now Moreno Veloso, son of Tropicalia genius Caetano Veloso, is raising his voice. Veloso's CD (made with bandmates Domenico and Kassin) is no mere echo of his father; his inventive songs have a quiet, vernal charm all their...
...present, Harvard's network infrastructure is incredibly insufficient," says Michael S. Vernal '01, who is also a teaching fellow for Computer Science 244: "Advanced Network Design Projects." According to Vernal, the FAS network is connected to the outside world via a single 100mbps (megabits-per-second) pipe. Each of the network's 12,000 connections shares this bandwidth. Says Vernal: "If one-third of the undergraduate population was using the FAS network at the same time, each student would be connected at the speed of a 56.6kbps modem." That's the connection speed you'd expect of your...
...tracks, Body II Body, wriggles and sweats like two teens making out in the backseat of a small car (it also features a smartly chosen sample from David Bowie's Ashes to Ashes). Mumba's music is ear candy: it crunches, it bubbles, it melts in the mouth. Her vernal personality (she co-wrote seven of the 12 songs) is what gives her CD lasting flavor. She's soulful but never oversings her material; youthful but never comes off as childish...
Michael S. Vernal '01 also defends the program's theory-heavy curriculum as more interesting than an approach that is focused on many specific applications...
...left with a collection of bizarrely interesting facts, not sure what to do with them: for example, that Easter falls on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox. Trivial Pursuit, anyone...