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...leads in one direction to where the humvees are parked, and in the other, up a rough slope. Sergeant Allen Grenz begins following the wire. As he crests the hill, Grenz spots a rustle in underbrush. Crouched under a pine are three enemy fighters. It clicks in Grenz's brain that the wire, a blast cable, is leading straight up to the enemy. (Later the soldiers find that the wire was set to detonate five antitank mines buried under the humvees.) Grenz quickly absorbs the danger: one of the fighters is holding a detonator. Another is poised to hurl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle in the Evilest Place | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

...about it, if there ever was anything that could be done. Personally, I think it may be genetic—an inbuilt allergy to supremely forgettable songs. An untrammeled enjoyment of pop music requires the ability to stop bad songs at the eardrum without letting them into the interior brain circuitry to gunk things up with sticky clich?...

Author: By Andrew R. Iliff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sound and Fury | 10/31/2003 | See Source »

...songs are just different enough to surprise without requiring any attention to detail. Remember Coldplay’s “Yellow”? Or Missy Elliott’s “Work It” with the elephant noise? These are the gems that make the incipient brain death worth it for the snob. Perhaps for the true pop fanatic/musical egalitarian, all songs are created equal. But even for such democratic listeners, some songs must be more equal than others...

Author: By Andrew R. Iliff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sound and Fury | 10/31/2003 | See Source »

...class with her before. She’s very constructive in the way that she critiques. And then I’m also acting in a show. I’m singing for the first time in about eight years. It’s called A New Brain, and it goes up in December, also in the Ex. But mainly, the thesis...

Author: By Crimson Staff, | Title: Spotlight | 10/31/2003 | See Source »

...They Saved Hitler’s Brain...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cult Love | 10/30/2003 | See Source »

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