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...Boston Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO), led by Benjamin Zander, stirred the Sanders Theatre crowd Wednesday night with an inconsistent but lively and competent performance of works by Bartók, Saint-Saëns, and Dvorak, demonstrating the classical music world??s continuing effort to resist the genre’s arguable decline.The concert—which was the BPO’s first of the season—was part of the “Discovery Series,” a group of concerts designed to broaden classical music’s audience. The premise of the series...
...host of this summer’s 29th Olympic Games may be a world superpower, but Harvard is a global force in another world??competitive rowing.To add to the 72 Harvard and Radcliffe Olympians who had gone before them, the 2008 Olympics were loaded with one-time oarsmen and women of the College. It was an unusually successful year as well, with three more medals from rowing to add to Harvard’s previous all-time, all-sport tally of 14.A fairly recent Crimson oarsman, Malcolm Howard ’05, won gold as the five...
...trough in the shape of the Weezer logo. But the trough of nachos is far from their greatest feat. Check out how 233 people come together to thrash in largest air guitar ensemble ever seen. Stare in curiosity as Weezer’s Pat Wilson jams on the world??s smallest drum kit (although this record has yet to be confirmed by Mr. Guinness). Then peep 22 people perch precariously on a gigantic skateboard. Watch some hardcore gamers go through a grueling 10 hour, 12 minute, and 54 second Guitar Hero World Tour Marathon (you don?...
...attitude adjustment, both countries have seen democracy devolve into more authoritarian regimes. Traub argues that Bush should have paid heed to these lessons in Iraq: he had to make Iraqis want democracy rather than force it upon them. In his introduction, Traub points out that 52% of the world??s population believes that the United States has had a largely negative impact on the world during last year. Because of our failed involvement in Palestine, where the elections were destroyed by terrorism, and because of the Abu Ghraib scandal, the international stage, and especially the Middle East...
...Illy” are typical of the College Park swaggerer and self-styled king of the south. And what would a T.I. album be without some club burners like “Swing Ya Rag” or the synth-heavy “On Top of the World??? But it is with his more contemplative tracks that T.I. surpasses anything in his previous catalog. Take third track “Ready For Whatever,” in which T.I. plumbs his own motivation and rationale in light of his gun-related arrest last year...