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...Campus jog for parents and students (meet at John Harvard Statue) — Let's be honest. This is weird...
...lyrical prowess and creativity. Tuesday, a self-proclaimed general interest magazine, seeks to publish works from a broad spectrum of genres that might not have other venues for expression. OUTWIT is a manifestation of this mission. “We try to find the undiscovered talent at Harvard, the weird little quirky niches that no one gets to see, and OUTWIT is another way to showcase that,” says May M. Zhang ’10, Tuesday Magazine’s Co-President. In its third year, OUTWIT mainly showcases rappers, who tease each other with rhythm...
...just a few years after the release of “Giant Steps.” Another particularly special partnership for Haynes was with female jazz vocalist Sarah Vaughan. Playing for Vaughan had its financial and artistic benefits.“[I] liked the material things. It may be weird you know, but I wanted a house,” Haynes says. “But Sarah Vaughan, to me, was not just another singer.” Playing with Vaughan and the other jazz greats, Haynes came to realize his place in the genre: “The drummer...
Some of these windfalls were the chimerical sums of weird accounting conventions. Citi, for example, booked $2.5 billion in gains - without which it would have booked a quarterly loss - because investor fears that it would go under decreased the market value of its liabilities. (Really, it's as perverse as that.) Loan losses are also still rising and could eventually swamp earnings again at many banks. But the first-quarter profits weren't entirely imaginary. As we look ahead, banks really are in a position to make money. "This is a great time to be in banking, you know," said...
...result of his bleak youth in a Japanese prison camp, Ballard, who died on April 19 at 78, was convinced that 20th century life was a frail shell of pretense over strong, dark, violent impulses. His prose had a lucid, often clinical air, but his characters were weird iconic figures lost in their obsessions over sex, drugs, media, massive disasters, car crashes, dead pop stars, hydrogen bombs and fatal medical experiments...