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...outsider to the indie scene, “You in Reverse” was my very first encounter with Built to Spill. Alas, instead of encouraging me to jump headfirst into the world of indie rock, most of the tracks on this album struck me as little more than background music. The instrumental arrangements and execution are seamless, but the reverb-heavy production establishes a clear divide between album and audience. Most of the album is fairly chill music perhaps best suited to spacing out; many of the songs drag on far too long without significant changes in the form...
...foreign governments’ motives, and attitudes to social action. This is particularly true of Russian’s views on public actions. In Soviet times, participation in sanctioned public activities was almost mandatory; non-participation could lead to ostracism while participation often had clear benefits. With this cultural background, this vestigial Soviet mindset, contemporary Russians often do not understand how public activity can be independent of the government’s control and not motivated by self-interest. Therefore many people easily believe the fairy-tales told by state officials, political analysts, and the mass media of NGO?...
This doesn’t mean we all need a firm background in the intricacies of fiscal policy. In fact, part of the beauty of this type of literacy is that both a specialist and a generalist can gain insight from the same set of facts. The former may understand the implications for future research in far greater detail, but the latter can still appreciate the contribution to the big picture...
...newspapers pulled tightly against their faces; when they reached striking distance of each other, they dropped their pages and began circling and lunging at each other like punch-drunk prizefighters. The buoyant strains of No Smoking Orchestra’s “Bubamara” played in the background, giving the dancers’ aggressive posturing a cartoonish quality. The standout performance of the evening was “Shelter,” a solo piece choreographed and performed by Marin J.D. Orlosky ’07, also a Crimson editor. Floating onstage in a rustic muslin skirt, Orlosky...
...accepts between three and eight homeschooled students each year, a number significantly lower than this year’s overall acceptance rate of 9.3 percent. Nancy Faust Sizer, a lecturer at the GSE, says this lower admissions rate could reflect a lack of information about homeschoolers’ educational background.“Nobody knows exactly what the situation was,” Sizer says. “They can’t even imagine it really.”Lewis maintains that despite having “less complete information” about homeschooled applicants, these students are still...