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...poised for widespread success. Since 1999’s “A2G” EP launched the group into the ranks of underground stardom with the anti-mainstream anthem “Deception,” Blackalicious has gone on a solidly successful run. They dropped the afro-centric opus “Nia” in 2000, followed by their genre-bending breakthrough “Blazing Arrow” in 2002. On “The Craft,” the two have branched out even further, leaving the straightforward hip-hop vibes of earlier work...

Author: By Sam D. G. Jacoby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Review of the Week: The Craft | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

...Nagin sometimes comes across as impatient or irascible, or his agenda as hurried or business-centric, his allies say, it's because New Orleans' fiscal problems--which he has said will result in layoffs of possibly 3,000 municipal workers--are so pressing. In a letter to Blanco, Nagin recently laid out his vision for a new, more prosperous New Orleans. It includes creating charter schools, loosening restrictions on the city's ability to levy taxes and passing state-income-tax exemptions for manufacturers who set up plants to process some of the 23 million tons of raw materials--such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can New Orleans Do Better? | 10/16/2005 | See Source »

...time jazz-improv section. And yet, whenever Versace was not singing or playing, he tended to retreat to the wall behind the stage—or, worse, to the band room. This behavior, reminiscent of Zeppelin’s infamous departure from the stage during a performance of drum-centric “Moby Dick,” was somewhat bizarre, as Statham seemed so involved when on stage. Scofield himself was inventive as always; his guitar lines were mind-bendingly complicated at times, syncopated and fluid at others. Still, he never really abandons the post-bop vocabulary...

Author: By Nathaniel Naddaff-hafrey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scofield Channels Ray Charles at Regattabar | 10/13/2005 | See Source »

Patashnik agrees that our increasingly globalized world demands that we must “look without and look within” the University’s intellectual heritage, and he calls for an expanded study-abroad program. But he defends the legitimacy of a mandatory Western-centric class that reflects Harvard’s intellectual and institutional foundations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Curricular Review Essays Stack Up Favorably to Profss | 10/7/2005 | See Source »

...midst of the first oil shock in the modern era of globalization. In today's U.S.-centric world, that spells unusual vulnerability. If higher oil prices take a toll on the over-extended American consumer, nations that rely on exports to the U.S. as major sources of growth will be hurt. That puts Asia right in the crosshairs of the energy shock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Price to Pay | 8/29/2005 | See Source »

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