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...Girl Talk." I was coming from the more avant garde world and when I chose it, I clearly wasn't trying to figure out a game plan for a 10-year project that I would eventually live off of. Back then, I was almost using pop music as an act of rebellion, especially being part of the experimental-music community. I thought a lot of those people were recycling a lot of ideas, like playing noise and feedback and having some name like X_R2. So I kind of picked the name Girl Talk because it was so glossy...
...difficult enough for a defendant to get a fair shake from the Ad Board—a student should be able to go into a hearing with the best possible representation. Compounding these issues are problems of intra-Board dynamic: Resident deans are simply not in a position to act as a defendant’s counselor. Outranked by the tenured faculty who comprise the Ad Board, deans are not only reluctant to challenge their senior colleagues but are rarely taken seriously by tenured faculty, especially in matters relating to academic transgressions. Simply put, the Ad Board does not allow...
Tribe gave several examples of the importance and relevance of analyzing the Constitution, including a recent report uncovering a Bush administration memorandum that used the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act to condone federal spending on religious organizations that practiced discrimination...
...enables voters to see what those qualifications and ideas are,” she said.Nemeth, who studied computer science as a University of Michigan undergraduate, said she conceived Imagine Election a couple of years ago when she began receiving postcards about hometown candidates. But she didn’t act on her plan until this summer, aided by a fellowship from the HBS Social Enterprise Institute. Besides coding the site, Nemeth writes most of the candidate profiles herself, along with a small group of freelance writers. Information is taken from the Web sites of candidates, who are then allowed...
...with an opera that has not been performed in the Boston area for 25 years—the performers should have been drunk from the first-night excitement. But most of them merely seemed hung-over.Daniel Snyder, in the leading role of Max, sang with far more urgency than he acted. His movement and expression were often as wooden as the butt of his hunting rifle, which, for a character whose inner psychological turmoil is at the center of the opera, was not welcome. In the opera’s plot, Max is a down-on-his-luck hunter who must...