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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Night at the Hip-Hopera” and ccc’s “Revolved.” Otherwise, I just put iTunes on party shuffle and see what comes up: obscure musicals (“Blood Brothers”), Patsy Cline, the Yonder Mountain String Band, a Brazilian band called Skank, the Pillows, the Notre Dame Glee Club, the fabulousness that is 80s pop, a gay country duo called Y’ALL... My aunt and uncle are musicians (my aunt Kristi Rose started out in the New York rockabilly scene in the mid-80s; my uncle Fats...

Author: By Jessica A. Hui, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Eavesdropping: Margaret D. Maloney '06 | 10/13/2005 | See Source »

...there who believe that education can be a “neutral,” apolitical pursuit—that learning can take place in a vacuum, independent of “reality” and its “problems.” But as the late Brazilian educator Paulo Freire brilliantly argued, the claim that learning should be separate from transforming our world is a political claim itself. It is equally political—yet infinitely more ethical—to make the case as Freire did that learning should ultimately be about developing our minds...

Author: By Henry Seton, | Title: No Strings Attached | 9/29/2005 | See Source »

Sport? When it began in 1993, the first UFC was meant to be a gimmicky showcase for Brazilian-style jujitsu (and its superiority to other fighting styles), but it quickly devolved into a circus. Wild audiences screamed for matchups of pugilists against wrestlers against kickboxers, a Final Fantasy--video-game array of combatants, except for the very real blood that spattered on the mat of the octagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Rules of Fight Club | 9/19/2005 | See Source »

...Sunnis threatens to spill into a horrendous civil war, with wider implications outside Iraq. And one thing is sure: appointing the same exiled career politicians to power isn't going to solve anything. Abhishek Bhattacharyya Bangalore, India A Deadly Policy The killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian man the London police mistakenly suspected to be a terrorist and shot, raises important questions [Aug. 29]. Why did British police institute a shoot-to-kill policy for suspected suicide bombers when disabling them would be enough? Why pump eight bullets into a suspect when one or two would have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lost Tribes of Europe | 9/12/2005 | See Source »

...mail train from Glasgow to London of ?2.6 million (then $7 million) in what became known as the Great Train Robbery, and later escaped jail; reported in London. Though Slipper nabbed Biggs in Rio de Janeiro in 1974 (greeting him with the words, "Long time no see, Ronnie!"), Brazilian officials refused to deport Biggs?who remained a fugitive until 2001, when he turned himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 8/29/2005 | See Source »

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