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...Theater housed a benefit show hosted by Harvard’s Sangeet. The show, an attempt to increase awareness of South Asian music and art, featured Pandit Jasraj, a legend of North Indian Hindustani classical music. Jasraj performed before a captivated crowd, singing in Hindi and displaying his incredible vocal range. The show began with a standing ovation from the expectant audience who, despite the near half-hour delay, were still enthusiastic. He then sought the audience’s prayers for a successful performance. What ensued were three hours of music that Samir...
...vicious and popular controversy.In 2003, Dershowitz was accused of inappropriately lifting material from Joan Peters’ 1984 book “From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine” while writing “The Case for Israel.” Especially vocal among Dershowitz’s detractors were his ideological opponents, including Norman G. Finkelstein, a political science professor at DePaul University and a frequent critic of Dershowitz Dershowitz denies any misdeeds, and explained in an e-mail to FM that he was only “finding quotations in secondary...
...parking lot should be a clear indication that banning it entirely will only reduce student attendance at The Game itself.This is an event that drew a paid attendance of 53,213 last year, a significant number of them students, and which stands to lose much of its most vocal cheering section if these rules remain in order. Why bother traveling across the river when there’s plenty to consume, and lots of socializing, back in the houses?Of course, this touches on the other strength of the tailgate—as a social event.For students from both universities...
...course, the Lovitzes are a minority of Lost viewers. But they're a vocal one. Pop-culture critic Steven Johnson, author of Everything Bad Is Good for You, says the show's makers "are relying on the amplifying power of the serious hard-core fans, who are 1% of the audience, to broadcast some of these cool little discoveries to perhaps 10% of their audience. Those are the great evangelists for the show, the 10% who are out there saying, Oh, God, I am so addicted to this show." And they help reel in the other 90%, which is where...
...Summers-hating and terrificly-titled Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan. And then there’s Summers-lovin’, aptly-titled Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature Ruth R. Wisse. It was Wisse who accused Summers’ vocal opponents—of whom Ryan was certainly one—of anti-Semitism after Larry was ousted in Februrary. Wouldn’t you like to be a fly on a wall during department meetings? Sixteen courses and a thesis stand between you and graduation, but you get a fantastic...