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...Gone” will be the one that hooks you. Starting with, “How you’re my hero / How you’re never here though,” this Emo-Motown ballad features the laments of a son thinking of his runaway dad. The content of the lyrics, the supporting synth, the old school, melancholic sound, and a booming chorus with James Allan shrieking, “He’s gone, he’s gone,” make this a thoroughly disarming song.Near the end of the album, the moodiness shifts...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Glasvegas | 11/7/2008 | See Source »

...song—DeVotchKa’s “How It Ends,” which is perhaps best known for serving as the main motif of the “Little Miss Sunshine” soundtrack. It’s an unexpected juxtaposition of music and content that works surprisingly well, conveying the upcoming game’s supposedly epic scale...

Author: By Jeffrey W. Feldman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Magical Mystery Tour of Video Game Music | 11/6/2008 | See Source »

...Stewart and Colbert’s predicament is emblematic of a much larger problem facing the American Left. For years, we have been content to throw spitballs—now we have to teach the class...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe | Title: The End of an Era | 11/6/2008 | See Source »

Hunter won't divulge the prayer's content other than to say that Obama "trusts God and the American people and just wanted to commend himself to each." The 60-year-old champion of what some call the New Evangelicalism also downplays the session's possible importance for his own status, noting that Obama has always been "very good about keeping religious leaders in the loop." Though he says he has prayed with Obama twice before, Hunter adds, "I find it hard to believe that I'm in the inner prayer circle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Is Joel Hunter, and Why Is Obama Praying with Him? | 11/6/2008 | See Source »

...believed that the magazine’s focus was too narrow. Alumnus Stephen P. Younger ’77, who received the magazine free of charge for its first year, says, “It was a very interesting, people-oriented magazine. It was high quality and good content, and had features that I found of interest regarding Harvard alums.” Though, he admits, “It was not of such interest that I actually ever subscribed.”Another feature holding back the Harvard alumni-centric niche magazine is the other Harvard alumni-centric niche...

Author: By Frances Jin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Uh-0-2138 | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

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