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...classical music in America, and shows the world that a senior thesis on James Joyce can indeed pay real-world dividends.A wise teaching fellow once told me that the goal of analyzing literature is to do the opposite of the work itself: if the book is simple, use your argument to complicate it, and if the book is complex, write about it in the simplest terms possible. Like Joyce, modern classical music, with its clashing harmonies and deliberately inscrutable structure, has become a locus for dissent between intellectual elites and the hoi polloi. You either get it or you don?...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From Mahler to Dylan, ‘The Rest’ is Music | 11/9/2007 | See Source »

...people of Kibweze are baffled by the air-miles debate. They have certainly noticed the effects of climate change, with the traditional wet and dry seasons now becoming flood and drought seasons. "But I don't think it's my fault," says farmer John Muyu. His argument is supported by research at Cranfield University in the U.K., which found that the carbon footprint from flying flowers grown in Kenya to Britain can be less than one fifth of the figure for flowers grown in Dutch greenhouses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenyan Farmers Versus Euro Environmentalists | 11/9/2007 | See Source »

...wines that rival champagne in quality and price. But what to call the stuff? Ridgeview founder Michael Roberts has dubbed his bubbly Merret, after Christopher Merret, an English doctor who, he says, described how to make fizzy wine decades before the French monk Dom P�rignon did. Expect an argument from the French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time to Hoard the Bubbly? | 11/8/2007 | See Source »

...earth's sediment dating to about the time of the die-off. Iridium is rare on Earth but common in asteroids. The iridium layer, mapped by the Alvarezes in scattered sites around the world, suggested an asteroid that vaporized on impact, spreading a cloud throughout the stratosphere. The argument seemed sealed in the 1990s, when geologists realized that a huge crater centered near Chicxulub, Mexico, was almost certainly caused by a giant impact at just the time the extinctions occurred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dinosaur Conspiracy Theory | 11/8/2007 | See Source »

...Professor Matory has no real interest in freedom of speech or academic freedom,” Dershowitz said. “He just disapproves of certain kind of speech and he is misusing academic freedom and freedom of speech to make an ideological argument...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child and Alexandra Hiatt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Professor To Bring Free Speech Motion to Faculty | 11/8/2007 | See Source »

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