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...added vibraphone, producer Phil Ek (Built to Spill, The Shins) establishes a more layered sound. Though this results in the best Dodos record for headphones, the thicker sound is disappointingly inorganic. The enveloping blanket contains some interesting elements, but Kroeber’s drums almost disappear into the background wash of noise. Throughout the album, sterile tones fill what would have been silences in their earlier work. Keaton’s addition heralds a fuller and admittedly more echoey version of their previous style, but it detracts from the band’s originally interesting simplicity. The added effects attempt...
...enrollment languages can be the “kinds of courses that prepare students for life in a global society” and are often excellent preparation for international careers. Danielle C. Kijewski ’11, a concentrator in Slavic Languages and Literatures, hopes to use her language background in a career in the State Department. She said, “With the ever-increasing ease of world-wide communication and international cooperation, it is more important than ever for students to become well-versed in foreign languages.” Chaput added, “Given that Harvard...
...course it's possible that the new commissioner will actually take some significant steps, but there's no indication of that," Philip Alston, Kenya's U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, tells TIME. "And there's no suggestion in his background that he's going to do anything other than business as usual...
...Juno”—generally center on adolescence, a morass of complexities that tends to subsume any secondary themes. Once they graduate high school, women tend to disappear from the screen in any meaningful way entirely, fading away as stock types, or arm candy, or background characters...
...Pakistan's weak civilian government also views Iranian influence as a potential foil to that of Saudi Arabia, which has stronger ties with the opposition. Government officials privately accuse the Saudis of being prejudiced toward Zardari because of his Shi'ite background. (Shi'ites are an embattled minority in Saudi Arabia, whose dominant Wahabi strand of Islam deems them heretics.) But Pakistan's response to Iran will ultimately be determined by the all-powerful military establishment. And, analysts say, the army is a great deal more wary of Iran's regional aspirations. "They are not really allies," says Christine Fair...