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With flair and fanfare, Boston's Handel & Haydn Society celebrated its bicentennial on November 21st with a historic concert at King's Chapel. The program featured the same music from the group's inaugural performance at the church on Christmas Day in 1815. In a press
Arts
What is the nature of beauty? How do we recognize it in the fine arts? Although 20th century artistic trends shunned depictions of beauty that had endured for millennia, most people still recognize it when they see it or hear it. The word aesthetic comes from the Greek word aisthesis,
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The month of May marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death. His harrowing tragedy, Macbeth, depicts the fall of a once valiant general into a paranoid, murderous tyrant. In the play, Shakespeare warns his audience about the destructive force of unchecked power. He shows that tyrants abhor freedom;
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On a fateful day in 2003, 23-year-old Pfc. Lori Piestewa was traveling with a 600-vehicle convoy through the Iraqi desert before dawn. Three of the heavier vehicles, including hers, became lost. They ended up in the very city they had planned to avoid, Nasiriyah. When Piestewa's Humvee was
Massachusetts
After his dramatic escape from slavery, William Wells Brown (1814-1884) became the first published African-American playwright, and also the first to write a novel. His creative use of musical imagery in his stories had a powerful effect on his readers, and influenced other authors who imitated his technique. After many
Massachusetts
Rady Mom (D) is the first Cambodian-American in history to be elected to a state Legislature. His extraordinary personal journey mirrors the remarkable metamorphosis of his home base in Lowell. Like many industrial cities in Massachusetts, Lowell succumbed to the ravages of urban decay in the second half of the
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It's one thing to have a brilliant business idea, but quite another to see it materialize profitably. Many entrepreneurs face hurdles obtaining funding from traditional lenders, and cannot afford business advice from proven experts. This predicament is especially true for women and ethnically-diverse small business owners. To counteract
Massachusetts
The verdant pastures of Gibbet Hill in Groton were first settled in 1645. The lush countryside remained virtually untouched for over three centuries. But in 2000, the land narrowly escaped being turned into an unsightly housing development. To avoid the calamity, local investors and conservationists joined forces in a novel