DID YOU KNOW? Pulitzer Prize-winning MIT professor John Harbison, who is teaching the undergraduate class 21M.304: Writing in Tonal Forms II this term, wrote an opera based on The Great Gatsby that was premiered at
I'm in New York City now, staying in a hotel a stone's throw from the New York Stock Exchange (maybe I'll see fellow MIT alum and NYSE CEO John Thain '77).
On the bus ride down, I was reading today's New York