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...dead-end Aberdeen kid into a supernova, the very last rock song everyone could rally around. (Check out the video of its first public performance on the With the Lights Out DVD; as soon as the drums kick in, the whole room learns how to levitate.) But the closer you listen, the more it sounds like straight pop. That four-power-chord sequence that never ever changes? It's got the rhythm from Boston's "More Than a Feeling," but it's not a riff anyone had heard before. If you'd asked one hundred Sex Pistols/Ramones wannabes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pitchfork 500 | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...years of my life,” said Booker, who has served as Newark’s mayor since 2006. Booker said that today’s youth should acknowledge the accomplishments of the great leaders he learned about in his childhood and work to move the country closer to the “perfect ideals” it was founded upon. In contrast to Booker, Negretti took to the stage wearing a grin that remained on her face throughout her speech. She told the story of Maria Carrasco, a Lynn, Mass. school committee member who was inspired to enter...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Booker Receives HKS Award | 11/25/2008 | See Source »

...It’s a question that interests a lot of people,” she said, adding that the multi-disciplinary effort at Radcliffe will be particularly effective in enhancing collaborative efforts among psychologists, engineers, and neurobiologists to bring sleep science closer to finding more comprehensive answers...

Author: By Sean R. Ouellette, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Names Faculty Leaders | 11/24/2008 | See Source »

...Xiao Yuan Liu, then a visiting professor at Harvard. Explaining his research interests in oriental studies, Haddad-Fonda said that in order to understand current Sino-Arab affairs, a historical perspective is necessary, especially with regard to the 1950s, when China and the Middle-East first began to have closer contact with each other...

Author: By Michael A. Sun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Seniors Named Rhodes Scholars | 11/24/2008 | See Source »

...mutual apathy towards football. “We both left at half time because we were cold and didn’t care,” said Johnson-Black. Both Fish and Patashnik expressed similar sentiments. Students also said that the college experience only brought them and their siblings closer together. “Going to college definitely changes you,” Johnson-Black said of her and her brother Harvey’s relationship. “So I feel like I have a lot in common with...

Author: By Teresa M. Cotsirilos, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sibling Rivalries Heat Up at The Game | 11/24/2008 | See Source »

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