November Newsflash
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Professor Larry Wallach highlighted a presentation of works by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius at the Bard Music Festival for New York Arts.
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Financial Times presents the new generation of tech CEOs: Jessica Mah ’06 is one of their “Billion dollar brains”. |
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Ronan Farrow ’99 was in New York for a State Department panel, “Youth Driving Change: Global Youth and Civic Engagement.” His work there was highlighted on Huffington Post. |
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Smithsonian magazine asks the millions dollar question: “Are machines dumbing us down?” For answers, they turn to Overseer Eli Pariser ’96. Meanwhile, the London Free Press calls Pariser’s recent TED Talk “brilliant” |
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Joel ’71 and Ethan Coen ’74 made Time’s list of “the all-time 25 best sports movies” with their inimitable non-bowling bowling film, The Big Lebowski |
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“When Politicians Misspeak, Should We Care?” and “Why No One is Right in California’s Affirmative Action Debate”: Overseer John McWhorter ’81’s latest pieces in The New Republic |
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Check out a video of comic artist Alison Bechdel ’77 on San Diego Gay and Lesbian News. |
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Drummer Shahzad Ismaily ’88’s performance with the band Ceramic Dog was called “mesmerizing” by the New York Times. He also got a shout out from collaborator Will Oldham in the Wall Street Journal. |
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Henry Alford ’80 charts how we learned to be able to laugh—when appropriate—at the trials of living with cancer in the New York Times. |
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