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...airy guitar chords, fragments of conversation, and frosty hip-hop beats layer effortlessly over and under the hazy ambient textures for which BoC is famous. Tracks like “’84 Pontiac Dream” and “Oscar See Through Red Eye” brim over with cascading jazzy riffs, while “Slow This Bird Down” and “Ataronchronon” give fans the traditional moody BoC fare. But of course for the diehard fans, the real question is: “Where are the subliminal messages...
...well. Sure, a lot of us work hard, but there is a certain security in all of it because we are almost always in pursuit of some well-established objective—the A, the elite extracurricular position, or the prestigious job. We let our filled-to-the-brim schedules direct us from class to meeting to practice to rehearsal, and at every break in between we are connected to our cell phones, our iPods, our laptops.Such busy-ness gives us the false impression that we are trailblazers when, for the most part, we are meekly taking well-trodden routes...
Although faculty concern with the decline in tenure offers began to brim last summer, when a group of professors expressed its disappointment with the tenure numbers in a letter to Summers and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, it did not begin to boil until Summers suggested on Jan. 14 that “issues of intrinsic aptitude” might be responsible for the dearth of female professors in the sciences. The firestorm over those comments—and over broader concerns with Summers’ leadership that were voiced in a series of contentious Faculty meetings?...
Though faculty concern with the decline in tenure offers began to brim last summer, when a group of professors expressed its disappointment with the numbers in a letter to Summers and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, it did not explode until Summers suggested on Jan. 14 that “issues of intrinsic aptitude” might be responsible for the dearth of female professors in the sciences...
...white. Not so white as the bare-midriff wedding gown of her 38-date rockconcert tour earlier this year. But to let people know she was the same old trend-setting Madonna who repopularized the crucifix and the corset, she topped her outfit with a humorous black chapeau, whose brim coyly held her long white veil...