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Overly-busy students who missed out on the Homecoming Weekend concerts need not despair, as both the Amherst College Choral Society and the Amherst College Symphony Orchestra will feature encore performances for the upcoming Family Weekend. The Choral Society’s concert will boast music by Morten Laurisdsen and Antonio Lotti, while the Orchestra’s program, “Russian Revelries,” will feature Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5. (Choral Society Concert: Fri., 8:30 p.m. Orchestra Concert: Sat., 8:30 p.m. B

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Sarah Schulman, co-director of the ACT UP Oral History Project, will give a talk entitled “United in Anger: A History of ACT UP.” The novelist, playwright and professor at the City University of New York is the latest in the Creative Writing Center’s series of literary speakers. After her speech, Schulman will read one of her own fictional pieces. Her accolades vary from two American Library Association Book Awards to a Stonewall Award for Improving the Lives of Lesbians and Gays in the United S

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Renowned investigative journalist Seymour M. Hersh will deliver Hampshire College’s seventh annual Eqbal Ahmad Lecture. Hersh has uncovered numerous scandals including the tortures at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. He received a Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for cracking open the story of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. He is also the recipient of more than a dozen other investigative reporting awards, including four George Polk Awards and the National Magazine Award. (Thurs., Nov. 18 at 4 p.m., Robert Cro

Five summer movies to look forward to ...

“Troy” What it’s about: “Troy” begins as the passion of two of history’s most legendary lovers, Paris of Troy (Bloom) and Helen of Sparta (Kruger), ignites a war between the Trojans and the united city-states of Greece. When the two mighty civilizations clash, legendary warrior-for-hire Achilles (Pitt) emerges as the key to the Greeks’ victory or defeat over the seemingly invincible walls of Troy. Why watch it: Hello … Orlando Bloom and Brad Pitt on the same screen? Who to watch it with: Stic

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The Korean American Students Association is sponsoring activist Je Yon Jung, a civil rights attorney and chair of the National Asian Pacific Women’s Forum’s Comfort Women Campaign, to address the atrocities committed against 200,000 women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. The lecture will focus on this dark chapter in history and the campaign to spread the word of this injustice. (Thurs., April 22 at 5 p.m., Chapin Chapel, free admission with a recepti