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PHILADELPHIA -The University of Pennsylvania Music Department and the Philadelphia Orchestra are tuning up to make beautiful music together -- not in concert halls but in College Houses. Philadelphia Orchestra musicians will be coming to the Penn campus to give informal recitals for students "where they live" as part of the Orchestra Raising the Invisible Curtain Program.
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WHAT: University of Pennsylvania's 249th Commencement ceremony WHO: U.N. Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan will present the main commencement address and receive an honorary doctor of laws degree.Other honorary degree recipients are Grammy-award winning musician and producer Quincy Jones, philosopher Saul A. Kripke, Comcast founder Ralph J. Roberts, journalist Judy Woodruff and Nancy Fugate Woods, dean of the University of Washington School of Nursing.WHERE: Franklin Field, 33rd and South streets
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PHILADELPHIA-- Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences Rebecca Bushnell has announced that Donald Kettl, professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named director of the 68-year-old Fels Institute of Government at Penn. He will assume the post July 1.
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Penn Partnership Schools Present "Strings for Schools" Student ConcertWHO:Strings for Schools and children from West Philadelphia Penn Partnership Elementary Schools WHAT:Community concertWHEN:Thursday, May 19, 9:30 a.m.WHERE: Lea School auditorium, 47th and Locust streets
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PHILADELPHIA Sports announcers already know it, and now Elan Fuld has proven it: clutch hitters really do exist. The 21-year-old University of Pennsylvania junior studied the phenomenon of clutch hitting in baseball, and his calculations provided statistical evidence that players such as Eddie Murray, Frank Duffy and Luis Gomez were clutch hitters.A surprising finding in the study was that Bill Buckner, who has gone down in history as one of the game's worst "choke artists" for his Game 6 World Series error, was statistically proven to be a clutch hitter.
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Mark SternProfessor of Social Welfare and HistoryUniversity of Pennsylvania School of Social WorkPresident Bush's plan for revamping social security has gone from "bad to worse," Stern says."Social Security has been a spectacularly successful program because it got the balance right between Americans' belief, rooted in market principles, that benefits should be earned and that pooling risk is a prudent way of dealing with life's uncertainties.
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TALK/Renowned economist talks about “rational choice” and some of its alternatives. Where philosophy, politics and economics collide is where Thomas Schelling is most at home. Best known for his 1960 landmark book on game theory, “Strategy of Conflict”—which was named one of the 100 books that have most influenced the West since 1945—Schelling has spent time at the White House, the Rand Corporation and Yale. For 30 years, he taught economics at Harvard, and on April 14 he spoke at Logan Hall for the annual Goldstone Forum lecture.
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When the new exhibit “Framing Exposure: Process and Politics” opens April 29 at ICA, 10 undergraduates will breathe a sigh of relief. For these Penn students the exhibit represents the culmination of a yearlong seminar on contemporary art and the art of curating. It also stands as living testament to their ability to negotiate loan agreements, handle insurance forms, deal with the headaches of moving art from A to B, and, in short, think like curators.
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There are many ways to get a good look at Penn. You can hoof it around campus, walking down narrow walkways and making your way through the hidden recesses of the 269-acre campus. You can bike, too, for a similar view at a faster speed. But pretend for a moment that you could soar above the campus. What exactly would you see from a bird’s point-of-view?