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...have the chance to see the man behind the joke. Bill Gates is scheduled to speak at Sanders Theatre on April...
...you’d like to hear Gates speak, you can request a ticket up until noon on April 15. In all likelihood, there will be high demand for a chance to see the former head of Microsoft. The tickets are going to be lotteried and results will be released April...
...penultimate track of her latest LP, “I Speak Because I Can,” British singer-songwriter Laura Marling issues a careful admonition to those who wish to grow up too quickly. “You deal with God far too young / Before you know it, your life has run away,” the sage 20-year-old cautions, seemingly wistful of her own life’s rapid passing. But after listening to Marling’s latest album, one may end up hoping that, in fact, her musical career has just begun. A gratifying...
...test the system. Tensions erupted into full view last December after Saif invited the Washington and Middle East directors of Human Rights Watch to launch its report on Libya's human-rights violations at a press conference in the heart of Tripoli. Few groups had ever been allowed to speak out publicly against the government, and security forces attempted to disrupt the event. Some Libyans scheduled to attend were blocked from traveling to the capital. Those who addressed the press conference and recounted heartrending tales of relatives killed in prison were shouted down by security officers in the audience, according...
...hard truths in his fiction - is no climate-change denier. "Here's the good news," Beard tells a business partner who is worried that climate doubters will hurt their business. "The U.N. estimates that already a third of a million people are dying from climate change. Even as we speak, Bangladesh is going down because the oceans are warming and expanding and rising." In other words, says a jovial Beard, "it's a catastrophe. Relax!" It may be the end of the world - but at least the scientists will be right...