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Getting to know Menomena can take time. The emerging Portland, Ore. trio’s name is playfully enigmatic, like an inside joke to which you’re not privy. A Muppets allusion, perhaps? The music doesn’t make the band’s intent much clearer. Their third release, “Friend and Foe,” opens with the richly layered “Muscle ’n Flo.” Its dynamic rhythm and slide guitar give way first to a shifting piano melody and then again to an organ surging...
...Throughout the discussions of a possible U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, I have seen hardly any consideration of how it might affect the U.S.'s major ally in the region: Israel. The past three years have made it clearer than ever that Israel is a bastion of freedom in the area, in good part because of the much appreciated support from the U.S. But it would be irresponsible for the U.S. to plan its withdrawal from Iraq without weighing the effect on a genuine friend whose very existence is contested daily. Shahar Segev Holon, Israel...
...surrender, Prime Minister Golda Meir replied, ''It is true. We do have a Masada complex. We have a pogrom complex. We have a Hitler complex.'' Yehoshafat Harkabi, once the chief of Israeli military intelligence and now a professor of international relations at the Hebrew University, has one of the clearer minds in the Middle East. He sits in his study at dusk, on Bar Kokhba, a street in Jerusalem named for the leader of a catastrophic Jewish rebellion against the Romans in A.D. 132, an uprising that left half a million Jews dead and the people of Israel scattered...
...classes, a revamped Web site, and the option of pursuing Sociology as a secondary field. Maura A. Graul ’07, who studies Sociology, said she thought the new site was “wonderful” and that it helped to make information about the department clearer to non-concentrators. Sampson added that the larger number of students may have been attracted by eight new courses that the department is teaching. And the advertisements in turn made students more aware of the new offerings, he said...
...Nguyen and Burke had never played together before. [Kumar and Hayes] make a great team together.”Fish had praise for Hayes, and also noted that the rookie is still improving.“He’s trying to sharpen his weapons and become much clearer about his shot selection,” Fish said. “It’s like a piano player trying to play a piece so well that his fingers just walk on the keys. A tennis player tries to make his shots so well that he knows where they?...