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...trio is impressive - they play "harsh noise" and host monthly noise gigs for "noiseheads." His list of influences reads like a Who's Who of noise acts - Osaka performance-art group Hijokaidan and its spin-off Incapacitants, Tokyo ambient-rock act the Gerogerigegege, U.S. conceptual-art group the Haters, Canadian noise combo the Rita and several others. "I turned to making this sort of music because rock is boring," says Cao with wholly unnecessary emphasis...
...Meanwhile, a vagrant boy (Eddie Alderson, the best of a very strong bunch of child actors here) directs a police detective to a chicken ranch in Wineville, about 40 miles west of L.A. There, a Canadian named Gordon Northcott (nicely played by Jason Butler Harner as a man who tries to hide his darkest impulses under the aw-shucks amiability of a Gary Cooper rube) has committed atrocities on some 20 kidnapped boys. Are these crimes related to Walter's disappearance? And if so, will the cops bring the matter into the glare of publicity, or suppress the awful information...
...global credit crisis spirals from Wall Street to the Middle East, Ahmed is coming back down to earth. There's still interest, he explains, but the buying frenzy in Dubai is gone. "Before, people were buying blindly without asking much about the details," says Ahmed, a Canadian. "Now such risk takers have disappeared from the market...
...first coaches played a great part in my decision to keep rowing—he taught us how to row well and was a very easy-going guy.” After two years in the Kingston Rowing Club and Kingston Collegiate, Overington was selected for the Canadian junior national team in his junior year of high school. His success on the national stage caught the attention of the Harvard coaching staff, and although he had previously been planning on attending college in Canada, the Crimson’s storied rowing program prompted him to consider spending his college years...
...College. It was an unusually successful year as well, with three more medals from rowing to add to Harvard’s previous all-time, all-sport tally of 14.A fairly recent Crimson oarsman, Malcolm Howard ’05, won gold as the five-seat of the Canadian men’s eight—not, perhaps, a result that would surprise followers of Crimson varsity boats past. In Howard’s time at Newell boathouse the varsity went undefeated for three years, garnering national championships in 2003, 2004, and 2005. He said that the pressure...