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...Having been one of the less cool kids in my younger and more vulnerable years, I didn’t discover this personal deficiency until Camp Harvard. Along with a marauding band of fellow ingénues, I arrived in a Mather suite eager, like Lisel von Trapp, to taste my first champagne. Somewhat serendipitously, it came in the form of a cheap vodka shot handed to me by a particularly urbane senior boy with whom I fell immediately and irrevocably in love. But alas, breaking out into hives does not a good seduction tactic make, so I woke...
Most Harvard students up early on the morning of The Game were probably pounding shots of tequila in the warm cocoon of their dorm rooms. For one set of drowsy yet dedicated undergrads, however, the morning played out quite differently: by seven a.m. the Harvard University Band was already outside braving the sub-zero temperatures at Harvard Stadium, without a mimosa in sight...
...most notorious example of this problem, called a "craze" by crowd management experts, happened at a Who concert in 1979. A crowd of 18,000 fans had gathered outside the Cincinnati Coliseum to see the band. Seats were on a first-come, first-served basis. When the opening band began to play, the fans thought the show was beginning without them. There were only two doors open, and the crowd rushed toward them. Eleven people died...
...outdoor 2000 Pearl Jam concert in Denmark, nine people were killed when the fans in back surged forward - despite band members' pleas to step back...
When the Killers debuted with “Hot Fuss” in 2004, it was no secret that the band was trying to be different. An amalgamation of frontman Brandon Flowers’s flamboyant personality, his flashy wardrobe, and the influence of bands like the Cure and Duran Duran set the group apart from contemporaries who opted more toward revival than integration. With their third studio album, “Day & Age,” the Killers once again try to push the boundaries of mainstream music by stretching beyond their already idiosyncratic repertoire of sound...