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2007 Issue 3

Category 2007 Issue 3Posted on October 2, 2007March 23, 2015

BACKSTORY: Fight for Freedom

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Category 2007 Issue 3Posted on October 2, 2007March 23, 2015

JUST PUBLISHED

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Category 2007 Issue 3Posted on September 30, 2007September 30, 2014

Recalling “The Day the Clowns Cried”

July 6, 1944, the day of the Hartford circus fire, has been dubbed “The Day the Clowns Cried.” The blaze, which claimed the lives of 169 people, mostly women and children, and its aftermath was the subject of We Can’t Re…
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Category 2007 Issue 3Posted on September 29, 2007September 29, 2014

A Trip to Africa with Nicholas Kristof

The rebel soldiers and their big guns become silent when Nakunda speaks. Even the cows in the nearby fields stop mooing. He is motioning to me, with insistence: “Have another piece of chicken.” Moments earlier, Nakunda a…
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Category 2007 Issue 3Posted on September 20, 2007April 16, 2014

A SHARE OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

Gary Yohe, the Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics, is a senior member and coordinating lead author on the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Priz…
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Category 2007 Issue 3Posted on September 20, 2007May 16, 2014

HOGENDORN ON CELLPHONE CULTURE

Assistant Professor of Economics Chris Hogendorn talks about cell phone culture the old-fashioned way, face-to-face in an interview.       Q. Generally, what effect do cell phones have in our life? &n…
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Category 2007 Issue 3Posted on September 20, 2007May 16, 2014

ENGAGED WITH THE WORLD

Chinese conservatories of music have long clung to classical Western composers such as Beethoven and Mozart as defining the gold standard for study and performance. Ironically, even the Cultural Revolution did not dislod…
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Category 2007 Issue 3Posted on September 20, 2007May 16, 2014

CONDUCTOR LOOKS TO FILM

Angel Gil-Ordóñez wears many hats in the music department at Wesleyan. When he isn’t working as music director of the Wesleyan Orchestra or conducting the Wesleyan Concert Choir, he serves as director of private lessons,…
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Category 2007 Issue 3Posted on September 20, 2007May 16, 2014

TALES OF THE CANNON

“You’re grounded!”   “C’mon, what did I do?”   “Out for six years without even a phone call. How dare you even ask!”   Sigh. “Can I at least send some pictures to my friends?”   “Just this onc…
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Category 2007 Issue 3Posted on September 20, 2007May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: THE MOST BEAUTIFUL STREET IN AMERICA

That would be our own High Street, of course, and the luminary who made the statement would be Charles Dickens. At least that’s the story according to a 1942 article about the DKE House by Lucy Colton Wells. Mrs. Wells r…
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