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...women" who built the original trail by hand. She shows me a photo of herself from that time: a young girl with a sideways smile, wearing a conical hat tied with a bow. For six years, she slept on the ground, cutting trees and leveling rocks with only an axe and a sledgehammer. "Sometimes I thought I would die in that jungle," she says. At least five of her friends did: three from American bombs and two from malaria...
...Reggae (Bloomsbury). At Studio One Perry had helped break the Wailers, a Ska-beat vocal trio led by the young Bob Marley, promoting the band's breakthrough single of 1964, Simmer Down. And in 1969 Marley came through Upsetter's doors to record classic cuts such as Small Axe and Duppy Conqueror. Although Marley was to become reggae's greatest export, back then the Wailers weren't Jamaica's only stars. "They weren't even the principle ones," says Steve Barrow, reggae historian and A&R director of the British reissue label Blood & Fire. "They were the ones who lucked...
...brain grows foggy and just taking a step requires monumental effort. I feared that not being able to think, along with not being able to see, would be an overwhelmingly bad combination. However, extreme altitude slowed down my team, so I actually had more time to plant my axe and kick solid steps in the steep snow. On the Hillary Step, I finally felt in my element. Similar to Hillary's own description, I wedged myself in a crack, my gloved hands scanning for holds, my one cramponed boot biting the rock, and my other jammed in a cornice...
Think Tank even features production from Norman Cook (a.k.a big-beat pioneer Fatboy Slim), never fully replacing Graham Coxon’s missing axe. The emphasis here is clearly on sound and atmospherics rather than songwriting, and catchy guitar hooks are all but completely absent. Instead, they are replaced by winding synths that are every bit as infectious, yet sound unmistakably modern. Fatboy Slim’s production exposes new sides of Blur that were probably kept in check by Coxon’s conservative presence in the band...
...seems counterintuitive for a Harvard recruiter to take the time, energy and resources to seek out a player, watch him play, fly him to Harvard, and encourage him to choose Harvard over other schools, only to give him the axe less than two months into the school year. Anderle, though initially hurt and frustrated at the decision, has handled it with remarkable grace and maturity. He acknowledges that he only began playing basketball three years ago, as an exchange student in Los Angeles—previously, he had played soccer...