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...Tennis is just a game, and we're entertainers," said Serena before the match. "People pay to see us play and perform. After that, we go home, and we're always going to be a family. We have to be able to separate tennis from family life." The first words Venus said to her sister after defeating her were "I love you." The sisters seem to have enough perspective to be able to pull that off. They get a lot of flack for saying tennis isn't the only thing in their life--for planning for their next careers...
...threatened with extinction. The archives of traditional Afghan folk songs at Kabul Radio, for example, are being destroyed. The sounds of silence, after all, are more reassuring to many governments than voices that have the power to move, to persuade and to protest. In the Sudan, musicians cannot perform after dark; in a Nigerian state where Islamic law is followed, a musician was recently imprisoned for singing. "In much of the Third World, people cannot read or write," says Marie Korpe, executive director of Freemuse, a group in Denmark that monitors music censorship. "People listen to the radio, to songs...
...seat for tick, tick,… BOOM!, an off-Broadway musical written by the late Jonathan Larson, a Tony and Pulitzer-prize winner for RENT. I had read much about the show and was excited to see a piece that Larson had written for himself to perform as a one-man show; its original title was 30/90 and it told of his anxiety at turning 30 in 1990. This production, directed by Scott Schwartz ’98, expanded the cast to three, adding two additional characters to portray Larson’s best friend and his lover...
...Crimson Key did not invite the Glee Club Lite—the a cappella affiliate of the Harvard Glee Club—to perform in the show, although they never specifically notified the group, according to Jonah M. Knobler, the Lite’s manager. The group had already planned a retreat in order to learn new music for the Jam, he said...
...Glee Club Lite was not permitted to perform this year, however, although they will likely be included in the future, according to Illingworth. According to an e-mail message from Curry and Childs, this year’s policy had been to exclude groups whose members come “from larger choirs...