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School Rinks: They've got Matthews Arena. We've got Bright Hockey Center. Matthews holds 6,000. Bright holds only 2,800. A clash of two architectural styles. Tough call. Harvard, however, has a hockey Olympian as its Zamboni driver. Point to Harvard on the Zamboni factor...
...somewhere above the din of the TV; the Walkman preserves a public silence but ensures that we need never -- in the bathtub, on a mountaintop, even at our desks -- be without the clangor of the world. White noise becomes the aural equivalent of the clash of images, the nonstop blast of fragments that increasingly agitates our minds. As Ben Okri, the young Nigerian novelist, puts it, "When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument...
...clash of expectations...
...diverse group. All of us really have different favorites, which is one of the neat things about the band. One of the things that brought us all together was...certainly we came out of the funk movement in the late seventies. We were inspired by the rebellion of the Clash and the Sex Pistols. We used to do a lot of Gang of Four songs and a lot of Joy Division songs. We also did a lot of reggae music. We like the social protest of Bob Marley and the Gladiators and the Mighty Diamonds. We just did the Harder...
...debate over the status of women, with all its theological and personal dramas, represents a larger clash between venerable religious beliefs and social movements that have affected much of the world over the past generation. Last week it was the Anglicans; this week the Roman Catholic Church faces its own gender battles as the U.S. bishops meet in Washington to wrestle with the church's controversial policies on women. Activists believe they are caught up in one of Christendom's great and historic transformations. "The last time there was such a ground swell that was not heeded was the Protestant...