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Drummers Beating With ‘One Heart’

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As the tension between Pyongyang, Seoul and Washington increases, Harvard’s only Korean drum troupe, composed of eight undergraduates, will bring


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Elite Choral Fellows Perform As They Prepare To Bid Director Adieu

By Josiah P. Child  • 

University Organist and Choirmaster Murray Forbes Somerville calls them “the best and brightest” of Harvard’s vocalists. Culled from the Harvard


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Author Questions Toxic Energy Sources

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Devra Lee Davis, author of 2002 National Book Award finalist When Smoke Ran Like Water, told an audience of Harvard


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Famed Cinematographer Visits the Brattle

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As a 50th birthday present to itself, the Brattle Film Foundation plans to host a series of special events this


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Center Restores Sargent Murals

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John Singer Sargent had a singular talent for swathing his portrait subjects in an exotic and provocative mystique. His famed


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Jorge Luis Borges’ Works Find a Home at Harvard

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Seventeen years after his death and nearly 35 years after his brief tenure at Harvard, writer Jorge Luis Borges is


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Epigrams, Advice Fill Mailer’s New Book

By Josiah P. Child  • 

Thoughts on Writing by Norman K. Mailer ’43—a hodgepodge of literary interviews, prefaces, essays, anecdotes and aphorisms—would seem little more


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Crowley: Lost in Translation

By Josiah P. Child  • 

The exiled Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov once wrote that Lolita was the record of his love affair with the English


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Eliot Book Room Exhibits Treasures

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About 40 students got a rare peek at even rarer letters and books Sunday afternoon as Eliot House celebrated the

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