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LIFE MAY IMITATE ART, but sometimes so does death. South African reggae icon Lucky Dube--who wrote the lyrics "Do you ever worry about leaving home and coming back in a coffin with a bullet through your head?"--was fatally shot by carjackers in a Johannesburg suburb, caught up in the rampant street crime that has plagued his country since the end of apartheid. Dube sang in three languages--Zulu, English and Afrikaans--and recorded 22 albums, some of which were banned under apartheid. Inspired by Bob Marley to use reggae as a vehicle for tackling social injustice and inequality...
...here at school without a pet. Freshman year, I illegally kept a hermit crab named Hubert in my Grays common room. My roommates and I adored him (and his shell, with a smiley face painted on it) but when he died in February, we cremated him, tossed his crabby coffin into the Charles, and moved on. Now I can’t imagine having a pet, seeing as I can’t even remember to water plants.The only animals I come across regularly these days are the two tiny dogs my tutors keep in our Winthrop entryway...
...worry about your house being broken into? Do you ever worry about your car being taken away from you in broad daylight down Highway 54? Do you ever worry about your wife becoming the woman in black? Do you ever worry about leaving home and coming back in a coffin with a bullet through your head...
...only wonder about the motives behind releasing a record like this. Either the band is completely ignorant of their lack of any apparent skill, or they’re merely going through the motions to put the final nail in the coffin of their record contract. Either way, it’s irrelevant. From the sub-par album cover to childish song titles like “Dizzy” and “Firefight,” all the variables of a band on its last legs are in place. 2007 may be the year Jimmy Eat World?...
...trips to the red zone, finally helping to shore up an area that plagued the team in its two losses this season.It was Harvard’s one unsuccessful red zone trip, however, which was indicative of the team’s troubles putting the proverbial nail in the coffin this year.Driving early in the fourth quarter, a 17-yard strike from senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti to senior wideout Matt Lagace set up a first-and-goal for the Crimson at the Cornell 5-yard line. A rush by freshman quarterback Collier Winters got the ball to the 1-yard...