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They may have named themselves after an evil spirit that has sex with women while they sleep, but Incubus is decidedly not part of the fraternity of rap-metal hybrid acts hell-bent on proclaiming their own alienation. They are sweet lads from Calabasas, Calif., who, after 10 years of grinding it out in run-down vans and cheap hotels, floated unexpectedly to the top of the modern-rock chart this past summer with Stellar and Drive, songs powered by pop melody, well-timed bursts of distortion guitar and uncommon lyrical sincerity...
...deck tickets the best seats in the house—always. It’s spinning yarns about the weird and the wacky, about the crazy thing that happened “that one time” when the secure boundaries set up by the rules of sport were bent and twisted by the unexpected and tragically hilarious...
...role to offer opinions on policies about which there are a diversity of views. We welcome the “puzzled applicant’s most profound questions” and we answer them honestly. Do we portray Harvard in a positive light? Yes. Are we disingenuous or bent on sugarcoating our responses...
...course, being of fanatical religious bent, bin Laden may believe he's impervious to detection. Or else he could be calculating that his own propaganda gains justify the risk. By confidently answering questions on a premier U.S. network six weeks after subjecting America to the biggest terrorist strike in world history - and at a time when Americans are in the grip of an anthrax panic that has even shut down part of their government - bin Laden may be trying to paint himself as invincible in order to deepen the despair of his enemies and rally his supporters...
...would never have expected Larry to do this,” he said. “I thought of him as a scholar, a scholar with a bent for organization...