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Harvard is well known for welcoming diversity, especially musical diversity, to its stages, and the performances of the Callbacks and the Pro Arte Orchestra last weekend in Sanders Theatre further demonstrated this tradition. While the musical styles on display couldn't be more different than night and day, they are also as similar as father...
Maestro Isaiah Jackson '66, guest conductor of the Boston Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, knows the musical offerings of Harvard well. Graduating cum laude in history and literature of Russia, Jackson began to pursue his musical interest more intensively at Harvard. Although he had been playing the piano since he was four and had sung in the choir at his prep school, Jackson's parents discouraged him from pursuing a career in music. He explains, "It was a long time ago. There simply were no African-Americans in the classical music arena." He found Harvard to be a place "where...
...compose over two-thirds of Iran's population and have been a powerful boon to the impetus for reform. Angered by high unemployment and harsh restrictions on individuals, the rising tide of Iran's future has swept the rest of the nation up in its furor. Last summer pro-reform students took to the streets in protest over conservative excesses, only to be forcefully turned back to class in a show of strength by the militia that ironically served to highlight the legitimate content of the student demands...
...rebuild his base of support after his New Hampshire loss, Bush made a strong swerve to the right in South Carolina on issues like abortion. Evangelist Pat Robertson stumped for him in the Michigan race. Even McCain is polishing his conservative credentials, emphasizing yesterday that he is a "proud pro-life conservative Republican." It would be very unfortunate if the coming closed primaries allow party regulars to choose among weaker candidates who are willing to pander to the right...
...everyone so caught up in the case of Betty Lou Beets? Beets, who was executed by lethal injection Thursday evening, was convicted in 1985 of murdering her fifth husband. For 15 years, her fate had raised little attention. Beyond the classic arguments between anti- and pro-death penalty factions, there is little to differentiate this case from scores of others that play out each year. So why did Beets's predicament draw such an audience? It's not because it's a rarity; in Texas, this sort of story is almost routine. Since reinstating the death penalty in 1982, Texas...