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Dismiss it as a flourish of modesty or a side effect of middle age, but U2 has steadily softened its ambition during its 30-year existence, and that's not such a bad thing. Early on, Bono sang with a moral force that suggested Cotton Mather with a mullet; not satisfied to rock you on "Sunday Bloody Sunday," he needed to convert you. In the towering period that spanned The Joshua Tree to Zooropa, U2 made stadium-size art rock with huge melodies that allowed Bono to throw his arms around the world while bending its ear about social justice...
...hour to feed the beast! Imagine a student union that is a blend of an amusement park and a twelve-year-old’s Jar Jar Binks-themed birthday party. Me-sa wants a big underwater rollie coastie. Imagine all-a the food-a being cotton candy and gummies shaped liked me-sa, Jar Jar Binks! Exskweeze me! Me-sa needing never-ending snow cone and a giant gumdroppa palace, but in this economic climate, I hardly believe it would be worth the long-term effect to our investment capital to build an underwater rollie coastie...
Steele used the moment to introduce himself to the audience, describing his upbringing by a mother who picked cotton in the South, before moving to Washington, and refusing to take welfare because "she didn't want the government to raise her children." He recalled attending his first Lincoln Day dinner 23 years ago, in Maryland, and how, as a black man, "I didn't get the warmest reception." Friends, he said, had warned: "'They don't like black folks. Republicans, they're mean.' I thought about that, I said, that's not the party of Lincoln. So I decided...
...same competitive stresses that gave us cheap LCD televisions, the iPhone, Lipitor, and Phillips Exeter Academy. Block-heads paint the public schools as a sacred cow, vouchers as undemocratic, and unionized public school teachers as modern heroes. Were trains so holy that today there are no planes? Was cotton so consecrated that we lack polyester? Likewise, the monopoly local middle school should not consider itself a temple. We cannot forget the lessons of productive innovation when it comes to education. I do not ask that public schools as they exist today be shut down. But I submit that, after...
...Cognitive Evolution Lab in William James Hall will be switching from bananas to bones as Pyschology Professor Marc D. Hauser has decided to stop his research with cotton top tamarin monkeys to work with dogs instead. Hauser said that the rising costs of care for the 40 tamarins that reside in the lab were getting too high—especially in the current economic climate—considering that his research is purely behavioral. “The granting that funds behavioral work have nowhere near the kinds of budget as the funds for biomedical research,” Hauser...