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...much in common with Dakin's, the black and white drawings are done directly in ink. This gives them a loose and spontaneous feel. Abe looks like a doodle of a scrawny nerd who lives in a scribbley universe. But a spontaneous execution should not be confused with careless content. Dakin organizes his pieces so that each panel has a thought accompanied by an illustrative picture. Sometimes they are literal and sometimes more expressionist, but they are always in service to the words, giving Dakin's work a more literary feel...
Summers enraged members of the Afro-American Studies department by meeting with West and reportedly criticizing the professor for his outside activities, including working on the committee of Sharpton, who is considering running for the Democratic nomination in 2004. Although he refused to comment on the content of his meeting with West, Summers denied chastising any professor for the use of his time away from Harvard...
...women with the love handles, with the bit of flab, with the normal body shape that you never see on music videos or fashion runways. It’s a solid single, with a good beat and a catchy chorus, and for its content it is a breath fresh air in this genre. But it isn’t one of the album’s best songs...
Maybe, just maybe, Murphy is content here in Cambridge. On the flip side, maybe he has even bigger aspirations than Notre Dame. And why shouldn’t he, with all these NFL coaches dropping like flies? Just yesterday, the overly emotional Jim Mora got canned in Indianapolis. To my knowledge, Murphy has never cried at a press conference. Put him on the short list...
It’s too early to tell whether the committee’s suggested reforms will succeed in bettering the lot of workers, or whether they will content the majority of concerned students. But in this case, the practical problems posed by the report pale next to the theoretical ones...