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...critical darlings The Microphones have promptly returned with their follow-up. A considerably darker affair, Mount Eerie is a challenging five-song concept album of meditations on death. Central Microphone Phil Elvrum sculpts an appropriately chaotic mélange with his frail, wavering voice, delicate guitar acoustics and haunting background vocals provided by labelmates Mirah and Calvin Johnson. Most prominent, however, are the constantly booming percussion and out-of-sync drum loops, which evoke (respectively) Mount Eerie and the narrator’s phobias surrounding...
Richard T. Halvorson ’03, is a philosophy and government concentrator. From the rustic outpost of Pforzheimer House, this Crimson editor will apply his varied experience and eclectic academic background to offer unique insights on contemporary global issues. Synthesizing international trends in politics and culture, he will present a “globalist” perspective. His column will appear on alternate Tuesdays...
This isn't the first study to call pot a gateway drug. What makes this one so persuasive is that it factors in such things as economic background, family upbringing and even, in the case of identical twins, genetic makeup. "We actually were expecting that by using twins, we'd find that the association between early use and later abuse would disappear," says Michael Lynskey, a visiting psychiatry professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., and the study's lead author...
Studying must have been easier before the time of e-mail and VCRs. In those photographs of the 1800s elite in their spacious dorms, well-dressed and smoking cigars, there is nothing in the background to imply entertainment other than books. Their options were fourfold: letter-writing, reading, drinking or smoking. Though I’m sure some tried to subsist on the latter two, how could they go about locating friends to join them without cell phones and e-mail? Studying was clearly an inevitability...
...budget, it’s unclear whether his style can accommodate a compassionate approach to the funding shortfall. With the details of his proposal issued today, we hope that Romney’s core values are the ones shared by the people of the commonwealth, and that his business background will give him the tools he needs to find creative solutions—not just more of the slash-and-burn cuts we have seen...