Word: bandness
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...elsewhere, it took hold for the first time in Jakarta in the mid-1990s - at a time when the music's belligerence seemed to perfectly echo the hostility many young people felt toward the authoritarian regime of then President Suharto. Onie recalls listening to Guns N' Roses and boy band New Kids on the Block and never feeling a real connection with the music. "Then an Indonesian friend told me that I had to listen to Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols and I loved it," he says. Punk soon proliferated as rapidly as cassette duplicates...
...freedom and rebellion that punk offered," says Trax magazine's music editor, Farid Amriansyah. "They were looking for an identity and punk gave it to them." Onie's friend Aca found his mood reflected in the stark lyrics of Fight Back, the 1980 protest anthem by English hardcore-punk band Discharge: "People die in police custody/ Where's the justice in that?/ Don't see none/ Fight the system, fight back." These words directly inspired Aca to join street protests in 1998, when he was tear-gassed and bludgeoned with the butts of police rifles. "I felt so alive then...
...Boston Police Department and Harvard administrators organized the strictest Harvard-Yale tailgate in recent memory. Regulations and checkpoints were everywhere. Every last detail was proactively enforced. Students were not allowed to bring any liquids into the event area, and students over 21 were required to receive a wrist band in order to be able to purchase beer and spiked hot chocolate (a policy repeated at Yale’s “student village” but not at the entire tailgate...
...hopes to persuade his nonprofit peers to emulate corporate America and form a Chamber of Commerce-type umbrella group to lobby Congress. He dismisses claims the sector is too diverse to unite. "When something's bad for business, they don't dwell on their differences," Egger says. "They just band together and fight...
...most original idea, but an entertaining one nonetheless—Yale’s effort was downright quizzical. Amidst the nonsense, one thing was clear: Yale was portrayed as a lumbering and sluggish dragon that only felled menacing pterodactyl-like birds when they careened into it. Clearly, the Yale Band agrees that its school is stuck in the Stone Age. And then there was frigid New Haven itself. Yalies may have a shorter route home and a few more days of Thanksgiving break, but they have to call that armpit of the nation “home...