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After the alleged incident, Cabot House Master James H. Ware said the Masters would have to “take a careful look” at the policy...
...JORMA OLLILA Not since the sauna have the Finns produced anything as popular as the NOKIA mobile phone. That's mostly thanks to the charming, bookish CEO, who holds master's degrees in economics, engineering and politics. Ollila, 51, has transformed the 136-year-old firm from a faceless conglomerate to a tech wunderkind. He is now leading an industry-wide movement to create an open standard for Internet services delivered by wireless phones...
...Harrison's guitar idols had included not only rocker Carl Perkins but also Andres Segovia, and he had worked hard to master an intricate, precise technique (his later experiments with 12-string guitars, not to mention his sitar playing, would be vastly influential in rock music). Now concertgoers couldn't even hear him, and, worse, they didn't care. Harrison, who turned 21 just after that first brief American tour, wondered to the others on the flight home, "How f______ stupid it all is. All that big hassle to make it, only to end up as performing fleas...
...sitar players were brought in to provide some zippy chase music. George started noodling on a sitar - if indeed one can noodle on a sitar - and asking questions. This led to exotic instrumentation on the Lennon ballad Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) and later to an apprenticeship with master sitarist Ravi Shankar, who gave Harrison lessons on the instrument and in life itself. "He was a friend, a disciple and son to me," said Shankar, who visited Harrison for the last time on Wednesday. "George was a brave and beautiful soul, full of love, childlike humor and a deep...
...It’s not surprising that the departments that are getting better are the ones that have really tried,” said Lowell House Master Diana L. Eck, who is a member of the committee...