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...might be even bigger if anyone knew precisely how to define it. The standard line is that emo accentuates the emotional content of a song with screaming confessional lyrics over rising and falling guitars. "It's not music that follows any pattern," says John Szuch, founder of emo label Deep Elm Records, based in Charlotte, N.C. "Some of it's real accessible; some of it's not. Some of it's 10 minutes long and filled with all kinds of loud-soft dynamics, and some of it's just kind of normal." Carrabba puts it more succinctly: "I have...
...concerned,” said Hilary L. Levey ’02, who organized the meeting. “I don’t know the content of the speech, but I think the use of the word ‘jihad’ in its context now has a lot of other meanings besides the religious meaning. When you say ‘jihad’ now you think of planes flying into a building...
Adelman said he has written to the senior class committee and Commencement Director Grace C. Scheibner, asking to see the speech in order to assess its content...
...welfare reform bill passed by the House of Representatives on May 16 has serious flaws surrounding it—both in its content and in the partisan, heavy-handed way it was passed. Though some of the job-creation programs for welfare recipients are worthwhile, the Senate should make several substantive amendments...
...methane in the basin, drilling companies will have to unleash torrents of water from underground aquifers--up to 20,000 gal. per day per well--which could deplete the region's water reserves and, because much of the underground water has a high salt content, potentially destroy thousands of acres of farmland. Ranchers also fear that the roads, pipelines and power lines needed for the project will turn their open prairies into industrial wasteland...