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After a brief warm up with scales, the group moved right into its first piece—The Star-Spangled Banner...
...night crowd was ready for its hero, and he delivered. "I had a new song I was going to sing to open the show," Springsteen says, "but on the drive down, I decided to go with something else." That something else was an acoustic version of The Star Spangled Banner that segued into an explosive Born in the U.S.A. Springsteen barely paused between songs in his set and traded verses with guest John Fogerty on Fortunate Son and Stipe on Because the Night. As always, he crammed as much American mythology as possible into his vocal cords. "That...
...vibrant, communal tailgate environment in which students will self-regulate their own drinking. If students eschew boring and keg-less tailgates in favor of pre-gaming—drinking massive quantities of alcohol to achieve a 4-quarter-long buzz—University Health Services will have a banner day. The College must take a pragmatic stand towards student drinking in Allston, if only to counterbalance the misguidedness of the puritanical Boston Police. For, as much as we hate to admit it, the way to a better and safer Game goes through New Haven...
...wise: the whole world beyond the shores of our shining seas is infested with subscribers to the doctrine of anti-Americanism. Don’t make the same mistake I did: stay home and safe from the masses of snarling foreigners who regularly tear the star-spangled banner to shreds like the dogs that they...
...response, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir called on local tribes to crush the rebellion. The most eager recruits came from small groups of Arab nomads who saw an opportunity to grab land and livestock under the banner of a state-sanctioned military operation. Locals dubbed the fighters Janjaweed, a name that loosely means "devils on horseback" and has long been used to describe the region's bandits. By August 2003 the Janjaweed had begun attacking not only the SLA fighters but also Darfurian civilians, who it said were aiding the insurgency. The conflict quickly descended into ethnic cleansing, say human...