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...lying around into the kind of sweet pop pioneered by the Beatles, Love and Phil Spector. Lyrically, chief writer and singer Stuart Murdoch, 30, favors mournful, Smiths-influenced rhymes about the adolescent frustration that comes from desperately wanting to do something but not knowing exactly what. He's clever, but it's Murdoch's quavering falsetto that is the band's trademark. Earnest and prematurely wise, his vocals mix angst and nostalgia with a hint of optimism. As he sings on B&S's second album, If You're Feeling Sinister, "Get me away from here I'm dying/ Play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Belle Epoque | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

Jovon, though smart, clever and exceedingly charming when explaining how he was framed for the wet-toilet-paper fight in the bathroom, didn't seem so psyched on Stanford despite our admittedly exaggerated description of seminars on video games. And the instrument thing, partly owing to some oboe trash talking on my part, wasn't going anywhere. There were nights when I dreamed of switching him with Elian, but that may have been more about my freakish need for media attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Spent Two Years Researching This Column | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...Senior Darren Dinneen was hindered by injuries all season, but in a losing meet to Yale (84-79) still came out to show that he was one of the Crimson's top runners. He won the 1500-meter run (3:55.56) and 800-meter run (1:54.35). Dinneen and Clever earned trips to the NCAAs for the Crimson...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Lewis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Off to the Races | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...outdoor season, juniors Chris Clever, John Kraay and Arthur Fergusson were the most reliable performers for Harvard...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Lewis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Off to the Races | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...Heptagonals, Clever won the javelin competition for his second-straight league title, and Kraay earned second place in the shot put. Fergusson placed second in the triple jump...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Lewis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Off to the Races | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

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