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Cursive are so busy winking at themselves throughout The Ugly Organ that most critics chose to write them off as insufferably pretentious. But the self-referential lyrics, an attempt to analyze the efforts of your average indie rocker, are mostly successful. It’s the sort of album Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst would be writing if girls didn’t keep destroying him. The disc’s strongest element is its assonant buried melodies, formed by a rather unsettling mash of orchestral gestures and bloated guitar blasts...
...yellow just shows up the best. We actually held up a few different colors and everybody in the room agreed yellow is the best. At the same rate, Rohit is very competent and I have no problem being associated with him, but that wasn’t why we chose the color...
...Goodridge is cause for concern as well as celebration. The Court chose not to grant a marriage license to Hillary and Julie Goodridge, but instead gave the legislature 180 days “to take such action as it may deem appropriate in light of [the Court’s] opinion.” As gay and lesbian couples plan June weddings, opponents of same-sex marriage are concocting schemes to circumvent the Court’s ruling...
Granted, these students received funding specifically to observe—but the fact that they chose to participate in the protests in addition to carrying out a study strikes me as something to be praised, not denounced. Since when is it the IOP’s mission to promote only the study of politics, and discourage participation? It’s hard to believe that an organization that prides itself as “a living memorial to President John F. Kennedy” (according to the IOP’s mission statement)—would question students...
...grandfather never met Mohandas Gandhi, but he did the next best thing. A photograph taken in the 1950s, which hung in a room in his mansion, showed him bashfully stepping forward to place a garland around the neck of Jawaharlal Nehru, the man Gandhi chose to lead India after independence from Britain. If Gandhi is India's founding saint, for those of my grandfather's generation, Nehru, their first Prime Minister, was only a shade removed. They called him the "architect of the nation" and believed he would heal India's divisions and transform their impoverished country into a proud...