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...early ’90s, fans have admired the Mountain Goats for the sincerity that each song exudes, through lone permanent member Darnielle’s incisively concrete, yet erudite lyrics. This effect is multiplied by the raw sound of his unmediated recording techniques. As late as 2002??s “All Hail West Texas,” Darnielle recorded his albums on a boom box, and some of his early works remain available exclusively on audiocassette...
...Smith awakens our desires for greatness, then her latest novel (her third, after 2000’s name-making “White Teeth” and 2002??s lukewarm “The Autograph Man”) is a test of her ambition. “On Beauty” is an homage—Smith’s term—to E.M. Forster’s 1910 opus “Howards End,” a sweeping tale of two families at ideological war, one vehemently artistic and the other all business...
...newest album “Hell’s Winter,” to steer clear of his mental gold mine of lyrical ultraviolence is confusing. He sounds uncomfortable wading into unfamiliar waters. “Hell’s Winter”, the follow-up to 2002??s titular paradox “Movies for the Blind,” is a move away from the gleeful aggression that has characterized his earlier work. Instead he steps into the well-worn treads of sensitive indie-rap, dropping his most polished and listenable album to date...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology—which reported only 108 burglaries in 2004, up from 101 in 2003 and 34 in 2002??claims to include larcenies of unforced entry into unlocked areas under the burglary category...
...adopted by the Faculty in 1978. It has had long-lasting effects—something like a bad aftertaste—at Harvard, and maybe Harvard alone. Finally, 2005’s Curricular Review report—the first real product from a process initiated in 2002??has changed essentially nothing...