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...latter signed to Warner Brothers by the end of the decade, to this day Yo La Tengo release another charming, if not altogether overwhelming record roughly every three years for the independent Matador imprint. Their latest, 2006’s “I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass,” even proved their most musically consistent, sonically adventurous album since “Heart Beat.”So what does any of this have to do with Condo Fucks? Condo Fucks are Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley and James McNew...
...became the first dean of the new Radcliffe Institute. Most of the woman-specific funding and programs disappeared or shifted to Harvard, and their future was shrouded in mystery. It seemed as though it would be hard to make Harvard treat us as well as Radcliffe had. We were afraid that Harvard would assume titular responsibility for us as full and equal students but would not accommodate needs that may have differed from those of our male classmates...
...villagers if they considered themselves Rohingya. The room full of around 20 people erupted into argument. I couldn't understand what they were saying, but it was clear that there was significant disagreement. Finally, one man spoke. "Some people call us Rohingya," he said cautiously. I realized they were afraid to be identified as Rohingya because the very word carried with it the likelihood of so much discrimination. The man's name was Muhammad - he gave me his Bengali name, not the Burmese one that Rohingya are also required to have - and he left Burma two years...
...Corbu Pops” Singers bombarded their audience with semi-intelligent gibberish loaded with resonant social commentary and indecipherable meaning.“I’m suspicious of things that make sense,” says Pope.L. “Maybe I’m afraid of it. False security...
...revealed to me--and I have the tapes of what happened--that the meeting was about getting rid of me, by assassinating me or getting rid of me through politics or through the courts. I know who these people are. I'm thinking of naming names, but I'm afraid that may make the whole situation worse. I have to be extremely cautious. I have to bite my tongue and taste my own blood...