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...connection with the new University Campaign, I received the University's latest plea, its cassette tape, "Harvard College, the Connection We Share," with more dismay than usual. My apprehension, however, soon yielded to curiosity; I opened the tape to examine its list of contents. Imagine my shock, in the portion of the tape devoted to "Teaching and Learning," at seeing the name of the professor who had achieved notoriety on campus and in the national press during my own undergraduate years for his sexual harassment of women in the government department...
While preparing a series of concerts devoted to the thorny yet passionately spiritual music of the late Olivier Messiaen, Nagano sent the French composer a tape -- and got back a detailed written critique, enumerating what he had done right and wrong. The correspondence eventually led to Messiaen's arrival in Berkeley for a performance of The Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ and to Nagano's participation in the 1983 world premiere in Paris of Messiaen's radiant opera St. Francis of Assisi. Eight years later, he led the controversial world premiere of composer John Adams' The Death of Klinghoffer...
...weightless scenes are also genuine. They were shot aboard NASA's KC-135 jet, which flies a special, parabolic trajectory to produce almost a minute of weightlessness at a time. The shots of the astronauts enjoying weightlessness early in the mission, performing somersaults and tossing sunglasses and tape players gleefully, add yet another realistic dimension to this space saga...
...bring every single CD you own. Not only is good music essential for studying, but it's a must for impromptu dorm parties. Besides, you and your roommates can tape each other's best albums...
...teenager regretted not being able to get shot, and thus immortalized, has received death threats and at least once has posted armed guards at his house. He has faced off with Sam Donaldson. True, the attention can be a nuisance. Some viewers are intrigued by his 1993 tape inviting "experts" in various types of weaponry to join the militia-at-large Raider Company based in Dexter. Last September in the Michigan town of Fowlerville, three men claiming to be Koernke's "bodyguards" and "unorganized militia" members were arrested while transporting a .357 magnum revolver, three semiautomatic pistols, three loaded assault...