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Stephen M. Marks ’06 will serve as managing editor and head The Crimson’s published content...
...celebrate the Entente Cordiale, France's 100-year-old diplomatic alliance with Britain , French President Jacques Chirac called the relationship between the two countries "l'amour violent" - a tempestuous affair. But when he and Prime Minister Tony Blair gave a press conference, they acted like an old married couple, content to downplay their differences for the sake of the children. Chirac insisted that the Iraq war was "the one and only issue" on which they had fought. "What matters really is all that we have in common in the present and for the future," he said. In fact they continue...
...weird. The quartet, featuring John Stanier of Helmet and Ian Williams of Don Caballero, is not your ordinary band, with perplexing track names, a record called EP C that came out before B EP and whose website biography is a series of scrawled diagrams, pictures and drawings. Not content to be merely strange, they also produce incredible musical compositions—the instrumental songs on their latest album are strikingly diverse, both internally and against each other, with track lengths varying between 1:11 and 12:27 and sonic evocations from monastery hymns to industrial to glitch...
Believe us, it’s taxing to have to repeat the facts—that the Yalies just don’t match up—again and again. Perhaps if they would just sit content in their number two seat (well, it’s really more of a stool in the corner), we wouldn’t have to expend so much effort. But the Yalies are true masochists. Nothing makes this point clearer than last year’s 37-19 smackdown. After an 80-yard drive to put the Bulldogs on the 5-yard line?...
...does all this help out the poor people here, suffering the wrath of gloating red-staters? Well, it provides a retort. I am perfectly content to stop complaining about the election results, but it will come at a price. If I forego my right to whine about this poor excuse of a president, then Republicans alike shall have to stop whining about the fact that the rest of the world is anti-American...