THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED On a bitterly cold winters morning, in a stubble field just outside of Clear Lake, Iowa, lay the strewn wreckage and the occupants of a four passenger Beech craft Bonanza. The plane had carried three bright, up and coming young Rock and Roll stars. The founding Fathers of Rock and […]
PETER BROOK AND HIS INDIA
Motto: Le théâtre est un art dont les grands achetypes existentiales doivent être mis en discussion. Je croix dans un théâtre qui est capable a perturber l’équilibre quotidien au bout de renvoyer l’être humain dans un équilibre de rapports avec TOUT : la vie et la mort, la tradition et l’universel. (Aureliu Manea, Les énergies du […]
Creating the Next Generation of Scientists and Doctors
While most middle and high school kids are still sleeping at 9 a.m. on Saturday mornings, there are a group of about fifty students in upper Manhattan who are awake and learning about basic science, medicine, and health. These aspiring scientists and future medical professionals from the Washington Heights area are enrolled in the Lang […]
Iran: A Threat Ignored
In the dispute between the US and Iran it seems that the international community has shown little or no decisiveness. Iran has stated its dangerous intentions time and again yet most of the media seems too busy, too comfortable, and perhaps too confused to ask the hard questions regarding Iran. President Ahmedinajad has written an […]