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...ponder at leisure Eminem's attempt to make the first iconic sound track for his genre - rap's Saturday Night Fever, say, or hip-hop's Purple Rain. Those two great sound tracks of the rock-'n'-roll era could not be more different musically. On Fever, the Bee Gees stole vocals from the Chipmunks and beats from the Casablanca records catalog to define disco, while on Purple Rain Prince stole moves from James Brown and licks from Jimi Hendrix to define himself. Yet both albums, and the movies that spawned them, are about the same thing: talent overcoming apathy...
Earlier this month Oluseyi A. Fayanju ’05, the 1996 National Geography Bee champion, was crowned arm-wrestling champion in a brutal FM-sponsored competition among Harvard’s finest game show, spelling bee and geography bee contestants. One of the fringe benefits of Bee stardom (apart from national TV and FM appearances) is that Fayanju’s cartographic expertise makes for a mean party trick...
...puts his geographical knowledge to good use. “My roommate is taking Gov 20 and needed some examples for an essay. I could offer details on ethnic conflicts around the world in a couple of minutes, from the residual info learned for the Bee,” he says. “Plus it really did help me during Freshman Week when I actually knew about the places people were from...
...Sabliére Society will join the more established Isis, Bee and Seneca as one of three new all-female social groups this fall...
Hagan also finds her attitude toward female social clubs changing this year. When she was a sophomore—and current seniors were first years—the only women’s clubs were the Bee and the newly formed Seneca, and Kappa Alpha Theta and Delta Gamma were the only active sororities. Even though she never thought about joining the small group of women in female social club scene back then, these days, with the diminished presence of men’s final clubs, she is more tempted by this option. “I haven?...