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...Coach Carmen Cozza was so confident that the week before The Game he told The Crimson, “I don’t think Harvard can beat...

Author: By Lande A. Spottswood, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Game of '68 Also Found America In Flux | 11/14/2001 | See Source »

...Mobilize, Phillips is once again doing it all, acting as writer, performer and co-producer with Carmen Rizzo. This time, though, he is with a record label (Cambridge-based Rounder Records Group subsidiary, Zoë) and has brought back the funky Grant Lee Buffalo vibe and use of production machinery. An amalgamation of psychedelic folk and bluesy rock, Mobilize captures both the epic and the intimate, sometimes in the same breath. The 12 tracks glide together seamlessly, combining textured, atmospheric instrumentals with mildly hypnotic guitar melodies. Phillips’s honey-coated, slightly haggard voice is alternately plaintive and playful...

Author: By Andrew R. Iliff, William K. Lee, and Stacy A. Porter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: New Albums | 9/28/2001 | See Source »

...think of Brazil without feeling certain rhythms. In the early 20th century, the country gave the world warmhearted samba and such performers as Carmen Miranda and Ary Barroso; in the 1950s and '60s it was soft-swaying bossa nova and Antonio Carlos (Tom) Jobim, Joao and Astrud Gilberto. Then, in the late 1960s and '70s, the Tropicalia movement marched in, armed with rock guitars and rebel lyrics and led by Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso and Gal Costa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Max De Castro: Beyond Bossa Nova | 9/15/2001 | See Source »

Looking left on foggy days, there was nothing to be seen. A cloudy sky veiled downtown Manhattan, and the Twin Towers appeared to be gone. As if stolen, the magnificent architectural masterpieces were nowhere to be seen. On these mornings I wondered if Carmen Sandiego had plucked the towers out of the World Trade Center and carried them off to her secret hideout...

Author: By Judd B. Kessler, JUDD B. KESSLER | Title: Looking Left | 9/12/2001 | See Source »

Central Americans know all about Mexico's reputation before they cross the border. That doesn't stop them. At El Carmen Frontera, Guatemalan immigration officials wait for the next busload of deportees. "I don't believe this will solve the problem," says one of them, with some reason. Already, he says, Central Americans are dodging the crackdown, using remote routes to cross the border into Mexico. Two thousand miles to the north, Mexican immigrants to the U.S. are doing precisely the same thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bus Ride Across Mexico's Other Border | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

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