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...drink at The Red House when the fire took place, said all of the activity was an overreaction. “It was really just a small chimney fire that just smoked up a lot,” he said. “They just put too much wood into the fire. There was no panic and no visible damage.” The Cambridge Fire Department could not be reached for comment. —Staff writer Reed B. Rayman can be reached at rrayman@fas.harvard.edu...
...from the limited time an undergraduate has to receive an education.“It’s always important to remember that if you put something on the curriculum you have to take something else off,” he says.Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism James Wood shares this concern. He says that a deep understanding of great texts is the best way to teach “the evaluative power that one is trying to train and empower in students.”Teskey cites legendary pop culture communications theorist Marshall McLuhan as an example...
...expected to issue its advisory floodplain maps in March. Those will identify the most flood-prone parts of town, where homeowners must obtain flood insurance. Until the maps come out, it's hard for people to calculate the cost of returning. Construction worker Mike Reed was gutting a wood-frame house last week in Lakeview, a prosperous neighborhood on the lip of Lake Pontchartrain that was devastated when the 17th Street levee broke. "Most people have had their places gutted," he says. "But if you drive around, you'll see nobody putting up Sheetrock or restoring houses." Plus there...
...Lies, and Patricide—in Beautiful Ireland!” Still, whatever the visceral appeal of the play, Spillane-Hinks maintains a strict professionalism throughout the process. Auditions begin Tuesday, Feb. 7, in the Agassiz’ high-ceilinged Horner Room, which, with its wood floors, chandeliers, fireplace, and grand piano, provides an unusually refined ambience.Spillane-Hinks and her producers sit behind a long table, calm and much more serious than at Pizza Q. That’s not to say they’re all business—they aren’t afraid to laugh with actors...
...home in any scenester dance club. Other bands on this album reflect varying degrees of similar fusion. On Masanka Sankayi’s track, electronic effects add a sheen of crackle to the singer’s voice, but it is ultimately the beat of skin-against-wood that carries the song. Then there’s Sobanza Mimanisa, who root their song “Kiwembo” in a distorted, angular guitar riff; in a decidedly non-Western move, melody seems to support rhythm, rather than the other way around. Some of the tracks downplay the innovation...