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...team works and Jobs' unique role in that process. Fry spoke to Jobs about his dreams for the iPad - and got some time to play with it. Lev Grossman, our technology writer, looked at the iPad as part of a historical continuum, noting that it's only the latest version in the long quest for a tablet computer. (See pictures of Steve Jobs' extraordinary career...
Gathering in Eliot dining hall, over 120 attendees—including Harvard undergrads, graduate students, Republicans from schools including Tufts and Wellesley, and Institute of Politics Director Bill Purcell—partook in the HRC’s version of this national tradition...
...other a star club DJ and dance-music producer. So the news that the two were collaborating on a disco musical about the life of Imelda Marcos, the widow of Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos, was something of a head-scratcher. Peculiarity, though, is Byrne's specialty, and the recorded version of Here Lies Love is a winning twist on the "album musical" tradition. Twenty-two different singers (including the likes of Tori Amos and Nellie McKay) alternate in the roles of Imelda Marcos and the people who passed through her orbitmost notably Estrella Cumpas, a housekeeper and mother figure...
...real-life Imelda Marcos, now 80, has recently tried to relaunch her political career, and Here Lies Love is, among other things, an attempt to explain her monomaniacal craving for power and respect: Byrne notes that he'd like listeners to "reluctantly empathize" with his version of her. "Audiences already have a certain amount of knowledge--it might be just the shoes and the money in the Swiss bank accounts. So I have to let people know what drove her to this, and to see if they can see things from her point of view. Which is not to excuse...
...earlier version of the April 10 post "Admissions: One in Sixty" stated that one in 60 of "high school seniors" applied to Harvard this year. To clarify, these "high school seniors" were part of the pool of 1.5 million applicants in the country and not representative of the entire population of high school seniors in the nation...