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...just three nights after the premiere of the slick, vivacious new Broadway musical Jersey Boys: The Story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, but already the audience at the August Wilson Theatre on West 52nd Street dresses like the crowds you'd see in the fifth year of Mamma Mia! Tight-fitting tops, carefully pomaded hair, ostentatious gold neckwear ... and the women look pretty gaudy...
...Valli wasn't just kidding with his falsetto. It was not pure, not angelic, like the sweet-child voices of Brian and Carl Wilson on such Beach Boys tracks as "In My Room" and "God Only Knows." Valli's had a raspiness that gave his romantic pleas gravel, gravity, balls. This was no castrato, but a grown, yearning heterosexual male whose impossibly high voice set him apart, in tone and content, from the baritone norm, and made him perfect for all the outsider characters he would articulate in the Seasons' hits...
...collectively.Just as Harvard’s “Understanding Computers and the Internet” has attracted the eyes and ears of an international audience, the University Channel’s Podcasts serve a similar far-reaching purpose for its parent institution, Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.“It enhances the school’s role in serving the public because it opens it up to a much bigger public,” Liu said.—Staff writer Lulu Zhou can be reached at luluzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
...Last week Bob Woodward of the Washington Post shook up the investigation into who compromised the identity of former CIA officer Valerie (Plame) Wilson. Woodward drew attention for withholding from his editor a conversation about Plame he had with an administration official in June 2003, and for publicly marginalizing the investigation's importance as recently as late October. Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald empanelled a new grand jury to either revisit charges on former Cheney chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby or perhaps seek new indictments. Karl Rove remains under investigation...
...still expecting to come through strong, though.” The Crimson was able to win 11 of the 13 events in which it competed. Harvard swam the 14th event of the meet, the 400-yard individual medley, as an exhibition. Sophomores Lindsay Hart and Jackie Pangilinan, junior Emily Wilson, and senior Noelle Bassi each swam a leg of the opening relay to take the first win of the meet in the 400-yard medley relay. “We just went in ready to go,” junior co-captain Jessica Davidson said. “We wanted...