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...Jojo—“Too Little, Too Late.” A rare example of a chorus that starts on the II chord rather than the I chord...
...know each character, the more you get attached," she says. As for Nakamura, he still displays the dolls in his storefront window. "We don't carry fad items, and if we do, they burn out especially fast," he says. "Uglydolls are a constant seller. They hit an emotional chord in people...
...body. And as such they are a perfectly legitimate subject for discussion,” the author says. “Race pride is a powerful and admirable force, but it would seem that the Jews could attain the desired friendly unity with the Gentile much sooner if the chord were not struck so loudly and often.” These few damning words sum up the experience of the Jewish student at Harvard, and indeed the Jewish person in America, until the mid-1950s. Jews, many of whom were only first- or second-generation immigrants, if that, were seen...
...pushing back hard against the government's power to meddle with property owners. The campaign is largely a response to the Supreme Court's controversial 2005 decision allowing the city of New London, Conn., to raze private homes for a commercial waterfront project. The ruling struck a deep chord in the American psyche; that the government could seize your house or business in order to build a road for everyone's use was one thing, but the idea that it could hand your property over to private developers was, to many, intolerable...
...appears that students on both ends of the political spectrum are in this not just to get their targeted candidate into office, but to change America—at least for the next two years. The kinds of comments leaving the lips of all the debaters strike a chord not dissimilar from those on the professional circuit. But while they may look the part as they command the crowd in Harvard Hall, many of these politically involved undergrads don’t picture their names on a ballot any time soon...