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...Beethoven’s greatest moment of glory, however, was still to come with the public performance of his Ninth Symphony in May 1824. For anyone that has heard it before (or at least seen the unspeakably horrible Starz movie network commercial that uses it), the music is undeniably majestic. Morris writes that “for the rest of the century, symphonic composers would struggle in vain to write anything that sounded bigger.” Beethoven, deaf and facing the orchestra, did not realize the audience was enthusiastically clapping until a teenage soprano turned him around...
...October 1999, Radcliffe College took the final steps toward nonexistence, its vestiges swept into the student-free Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The LCR was dismantled that fall; according to a 2001 report by the Women’s Initiative Network, it “disappeared without warning, practically overnight...
...Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Iraq are arriving at Harvard this week to join two visiting fellows as a part of the Scholars at Risk (SAR) Program, a program that allows scholars facing persecution in their home countries to conduct research at universities in safety. The SAR fellowship network, which began in 2000 at New York University, first placed scholars at Harvard in 2001. Under the direction of the University Committee on Human Rights Studies, the Harvard program has thus far invited 10 scholars to Cambridge. This year, the program will fund an unprecedented six scholars, whereas previous years...
Those facts, recycled through Web-savvy organizations like the Fluoride Action Network, are stirring up activists. While city councils and water boards tend to fluoridate when they have the power, the electorate is far more divided. Over the past five years, the practice was voted down in 38 of 79 referendums, from Modesto, Calif., to Worcester, Mass. "The Internet is making it light-years more difficult to fluoridate," says Smith. The Washington State Dental Association is backing his $300,000 pro-fluoride campaign. Danelle Weaver and her friends, meanwhile, have raised less than $10,000. But they are undaunted. "People...
...regarding the issue of our team name. The community, the politicians, and the students all said that they were willing to listen to the “other side.” But it is all lip service. The university and its “old boy” network have never seriously listened to native students. They never listened when my car windows were broken after a march regarding the team name issue. They never listened when two white male peers harassed me for wearing a “Change the Name” button on my backpack. They...