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...residential system. Until then, Masters answered the same questions of responsibility, but at least they could expect to preside over the well-being of a constant, predictable group of students—be they the athletes of Kirkland House, the pre-meds of Quincy House or the tree-hugging, bongo-thumping environmentalists of Dunster House. Community spirit, at some base level, was inherent to House life by nature of common association...
...peers, unified behind a common goal of convincing the University to grant its employees a “living wage,” have come together in a dramatic and symbolic action in the takeover of Massachusetts Hall. Armed with labor demands—as well as bongo drums, tents and makeshift granola bars—these students have garnered enough attention to become a national news story. As the students’ protest escalates, the public figures who have attended the rally—either to support or to condemn the living wage campaign—have become more...
...Bill Summers’ bandmates call him the Guru, and for good reason.While Mayfield was the center of attention, Bill Summers subtly drove the band from behind his varied percussion set. He conjured numerous rhythms from his percussion collection, playing cowbells, shekere, bongo, tambourine, even unleashing his sticks on the stage lights. At times, he commanded the whole room, as was the case when he led both the band and audience in a recreation of traditional West African call-and-response. The band’s spontaneous transitions all seem triggered by Summers, as when he guided...
...name eBay conjures up Bongo the Monkey, Huggy the Bear and the rest of the Beanie Baby clan, you're about three years behind the times. Computer giant Sun Microsystems is listing up to 150 items a day on eBay, including e4500 servers that sell for as much as $15,000. eBay Motors, which launched last April, is the third biggest auto-sales site on the Internet. And eBay's new Business Exchange, which has listings for $6,000 backhoes and $25,000 lathes, has doubled its offerings in the past quarter...
...them. They are naked bongo-playing blue Smurfs proffering gang massages and, in the hindsight of photographic evidence, looking like a bunch of dorks. He is sitting alone on a couch in the middle of the desert, face hidden under a cowboy hat and aviator sunglasses, teeth like a colonial graveyard, chain-smoking unfiltered Camel 100s in the 98[degrees] heat and talking about the ancient Greeks' concept of public space. When the Internet took his bonfire and turned it into a horde-gathering weeklong event that generated headlines all over the globe, Larry Harvey could have become many things...