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...affiliated with the Music Department or any other academic branch of the University, Coriel was inspired to create ”How Songs Work” in response to the proposals of the Task Force on the Arts. He decided to take the initiative to make a concrete step toward the goal of augmenting the arts at Harvard.This ambitious step has garnered much encouragement from members of the arts community. According to Coriel, he has received positive feedback from the Dramatic Arts and Literature Departments, as well as from Humanities Professor Stephen J. Greenblatt, chair of the Task Force...
...with an otherworldly clairvoyance.The most interesting perspective is that of Lark and Termite’s aunt, Nonie, who has effectively raised them. Nonie has taken pains to cover over the memory of her sister, a woman whom it seems was always more beloved than she was. Her attitude toward the children is constantly shifting, and she dribbles out her emotion in jaded comments. “Don’t ever let a man inside you,” she tells Lark, starting when Lark is only about nine years old. If Nonie was jealous of her sister...
...battle between nostalgia and relevance, the latter ultimately wins out, due to little more than cunning, guile and a true gift for songwriting. The Pains’ debut album is wrought in broad, confident brushstrokes of song, making evocative, yet playful gestures toward tearing down the temple they so firmly occupy. Gamboling through these most wintry of times with summer glee, The Pains of Being Pure At Heart gives us a welcome first album—terrible puns, names, clichés, and all.—Staff writer Ruben L. Davis can be reached at rldavis@fas.harvard.edu...
...final hiccup in a three-week process that was full of hiccups was over the approximately $10 billion added to the state-stabilization fund that House Democrats wanted to see directed toward school construction. The three Senate Republicans - Maine Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, without whose votes the bill would not have passed the Senate - wanted to leave how the funds would be spent up to governors. Ultimately, the two sides agreed to allow governors the option of spending the money on school construction but not limit the money to that. "There...
...hoping for much more aid, and they'll undoubtedly be back as their own budgets sag," said Don Kettl, a political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania. The bill includes $59 billion to help unemployed workers and extends aid for their health insurance. Ninety billion dollars will go toward shoring up Medicaid, $19 billion is allocated for Obama's "down payment" on modernizing health-care records - short of the $25 billion he originally envisioned - and onetime payments of $250 will be made for senior citizens, disabled veterans and disabled workers...