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...room going even as Dan Boeckner, one of two lead singers, appeared ready to give himself whiplash. Then, as soon as the song finished, the technical difficulties began. A minute dragged into five, and no one in the band stepped forward to fill the relative silence with idle chit-chat or weird Canadian jokes. Talk about a momentum killer. The same misfortune seemed to recur after every number, so that the concert felt like a series of song islands suspended in a morass of re-tuning and feedback. But what songs! Forget Boeckner’s head-banging spectacle-mongering...
...more concise and meaningful, with much less "FYI." And as everyone started to rethink their priorities, guess what fell to the bottom of the list? "We spend a lot less time in meetings," Tobias says. They used to have a two-hour weekly staff meeting that often devolved into chit-chat. Now, if they don't need to meet, they...
...bothered with small talk when I had Kissinger’s Diplomacy staring at me and a ginormous source pack for Hist A-12 weighing down my man purse. By wearing earphones, I could easily avoid hi-hello-how-ya-doings and proceed from Winthrop House to Lamont sans chit chat. Acquaintances no longer saw me as someone to greet—I was someone engrossed by my music. To Japanese tourists, I was not someone who knew directions around the square—I was just a lazy American bouncing to my funky beat. And best of all, that...
...enormous numbers is no longer in doubt due to advanced stages of malnutrition and disease that cannot be reversed," says USAID's Winter. The final death toll will depend largely on "whether the Sudanese government will finally make saving lives in Darfur the priority rather than a chit for negotiation." In such a high-stakes game, few expect that to happen. --Reported by Massimo Calabresi/Washington and Ilona Eveleens/Kailek
...together” for Harvard’s gay male community, with the guest list and e-mails furnished courtesy of the search engine of thefacebook.com. Even during the fete’s early moments, there wasn’t much by way of awkward introductions or meaningless chit-chat, as everyone was already fairly well acquainted with each other’s political views, interests and favorite quotes. Indeed, by the end of the night, there wasn’t much, if anything, that hadn’t been shared by most of those in attendance...