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...along these days. I suspect the movies are at least partially right, because they re ridiculously popular with teenage demographics - but it will be a shame if a band feels it has to pack their songs with every style in the Grove Dictionary of Music to be au courant...
...book, entitled "What is Mathematics?" covered a broad range of advanced mathematical topics in language comprehensible to non-mathematicians. The book was written with Richard Courant...
Sparked by David Horowitz’s recent advertisement in college newspapers, reparations for slavery has become a prominent issue. The Hartford Courant, one of the oldest newspapers in America, has apologized for advertising for runaway slaves. That apology was inspired by a story about another great Connecticut institution, Aetna Insurance, which had written policies on slaves’ lives. Now Congress is investigating the role of slave labor in constructing the United States Capitol...
...above lines of dialogue are not from the court transcript of the ongoing Sean "Puffy" Combs trial in New York City, but from the current box office hit "Save the Last Dance," a film that's so intent on employing supposedly hip, au courant phrases that at times, well, it seems like the film is frontin' just a little bit. But despite the sometimes too-eager-to-be-hip script, and despite the fact that the trailer makes it look and smell like yet another crummy Freddie Prinze Jr.-type movie, "Save the Last Dance" is actually a pretty entertaining...
...LIST Who says politics is drab? L.A. entrepreneurs Marie Condron and Ian Riekes Trivers asked designers to create something au courant for the Gore-Lieberman campaign. Using the same techniques designers applied to '80s rock shirts this fashion season, they cut, slashed, fringed and studded campaign shirts for that oh-so-now glam-T look. Price: $25. While the G.O.P. has no clothing line for the cool kids, Bush did score big glam points when he was endorsed by goth rocker Marilyn Manson. But Bush spokesman Tucker Eskew apparently doesn't think the hipster bloc is in play, telling...