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...Anglo-American psych-rock guitars with distinctly South American tropicalia. They’re too damn happy and wise for pretension.And boy howdy, could they rock a groove.It’s interesting—when they were young bucks in the ’60s, they made a conscious effort to be as wild and new as they possibly could, but now, with age, they seem to have realized that they can get less fuzzed-out and more like traditional South American music. Watching them was like watching an aging, agnostic Jew rediscover the power of scripture, and dance...
...those things would be to score points against the teams we should be helping. The idea that we can climb up the long ladder of privilege and then kick it down is farcical. Such a notion could only exist at a place like Harvard, where socially conscious students feel the need to justify their extreme privilege. We’re young and we’re supposed to be idealistic, but too many Harvard students limit themselves to a “realistic” alternative that they don’t even understand. Too many of us define...
CHAVEZ: The difference is ethics and morals. We're not threatening anyone. That slogan is simply a call for conscious reflection on national unity. We're not going to enforce it by bombing or invading anyone...
...uncertainty that mirror the real world, the problems of five surgical interns and their bosses at Seattle Grace seem refreshingly familiar. "This is an old-fashioned show, and that's what makes it feel fresh," says creator and executive producer Shonda Rhimes, a black woman who has made a conscious effort to increase diversity (both racial and gender) in the show's casting. "The high-tech plot-driven shows are fantastically exciting. We're an alternative." And unlike Meredith's dilemma, there's no uncertainty about which option viewers of Grey's Anatomy will choose...
...Rock is willing to let each of its characters be right and wrong; it's confident that we don't need to worship them to like them. And for all the show's cartooniness, its gender-conscious take on the TV business is actually more sophisticated. Sure, networks occasionally interfere with shows for political reasons. But more often, they do so for demographic reasons. Or for no reason. "Sometimes," Jack boasts, "you have to change things that are perfectly good just to make them your...