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...festival is a magnet for aficionados and practitioners alike,” says Levin.At the end of the day, the goal of early music is not scholarly but aesthetic. Rodin says: “We don’t want to create a fossilized object. Our major concern is to make the music engaging to the audience.” Friedman articulates similar sentiments: “[Early music] is not really about what the composer wanted so much as exploring what they might have heard, and what it might have sounded like to the contemporary audience...
...isn’t important enough to mandate attention.” The Radcliffe Union of Students released a statement saying that “mixed-gender rooms will lead to a greater understanding of gender-related issues for all undergraduates.” But some students have expressed concern that co-ed rooming will cause an increase in sexual assault and violence. “My primary concern is that a lot of studies show that when two members of different genders room together there’s an increased chance of abuse,” Eddie...
...human rights and whether it is appropriate for us to be the moral arbiters for a distant culture. And so on, until we have plagued ourselves with self-doubt. Certainly, the unelected clerics of Iran depend on enough of us doing that. But those of us who are sincerely concerned with the plight of Iranians cannot satisfy ourselves through further abdication. It is crystal clear that something has to be done.Even people halfway around the world can accomplish something important for Iran. In an interview with a German newspaper, one of Iran’s leading reformers, Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, said...
...Moscow. A State Department official says they discussed how best to take "firm, meaningful action" to rein in Iran, which insists it has the right to enrich uranium for what it says are peaceful purposes. But another knowledgeable U.S. official goes further, asserting that Rice called Lavrov to voice concern about his government?s continued opposition to a joint U.S.-European plan to have the Security Council call on Iran to suspend its nuclear activities. The official said that Rice warned Lavrov that Russia was becoming isolated from the rest of the Security Council; she referred, he says, to Tuesday...
...current concern over the level of exhaustion and lack of new ideas in the West Wing isn't necessarily a laughing matter. Some well-known, and mostly anonymous, Republicans outside the White House are indeed agitating for new blood. One Republican official said that Bush needs "a heavyweight for outreach to the Hill" and is considering "some senior folks to get some rudders back," but added that "they won't go outside the family." And Sen. Norman Coleman (R-Minn.), usually considered close to the White House, went public this week with a view that has been whispered among Republican...