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Ralston's adventuring has nearly killed him at least once before. According to the Aspen Times, he has made more than 40 solo winter climbs of Colorado's Fourteeners (peaks taller than 14,000 ft.), bringing just water, candy bars and an ice ax--no cell phone, no GPS, not so much as a rope. In February, while skiing near Vail, Colo., Ralston was buried to his neck in an avalanche; a friend was completely submerged for 10 minutes. When an Aspen Times reporter came calling in March for a story on Ralston's climbing feats, the outdoorsman told...
America needs its hairy heroes (maybe not Robin Williams), and George Lucas is obliging. It has been 20 years since CHEWBACCA appeared in a new Star Wars movie, but Han Solo's faithful, fur-covered sidekick will return for a small part in Episode III, which starts production this summer in Australia. Peter Mayhew, the 7-ft. 3-in. English actor who donned the Wookiee suit for the first three Star Wars films--and has been signing autographs at conventions ever since--will again play the brawny warrior from the planet Kashyyyk. Lucas has said that Episode...
...rendition of “Tu, Solo, Tu” performed by Harvard’s own Mariachi Veritas that could be heard wafting out of Lowell Lecture Hall last weekend was not the only beautiful sound emanating from Presencia Latina. The sound of the campus’ diverse cultural groups coming together to showcase their diverse and rich cultural heritages resonated from both the presenters and the organizers. This culminating event was a fitting end to April’s successful Latino Awareness Month...
Davis has spent her years at Harvard immersed in music. She is a full-time member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and the Bach Symphony Orchestra (BSO), and occasionally performs with other groups. She says her most rewarding performance was the Britten Serenade—a piece written for solo horn and voice—with...
While he focused on solo pieces during his first two years at Harvard, during his junior year he says he found that chamber music balanced his love for people and music...