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...Lord did a work in us," Caleb's father explains, of how he turned around his own struggling marriage. In case that's too subtle an endorsement of the great marriage counselor in the sky, the father-son conversation takes place in a field beside a giant wooden cross. If the scene works for audiences, it's because everyone involved - the director, Cameron, the rest of the cast, even the church ladies who served the tuna casserole at the craft services table - sincerely believes it. "Marriage has been attacked and watered down and called a piece of paper," says Alex...
...machines that pump out “nature sounds” all night and really don’t help anyone sleep. But instead of just smashing the thing, Brooklyn duo High Places have found an actual use for one. On their self-titled debut album, High Places layer cross-cultural melodies over naturalistic soundscapes (think rainforest) with surprising success. At first, it may sound like a mess—discombobulated, slapdash, and just plain weird. But High Places aren’t just some randoms who decided to combine their love of global ethnic music with their snoozing troubles...
...insurmountable, and in fact have cultural precedent within China. Standard Chinese is a Chinese that is at once familiar and foreign to many—there are likely hundreds of millions of Chinese who speak Chinese dialects at home or even exclusively and deal with issues of cross-cultural translation everyday...
...week, and some of these students drink on at least one of these nights. Recently, some Mt. Auburn final clubs have been heard playing loud music as early in the week as Wednesday. Our minds are in disturbia, indeed: This sort of behavior is an embarrassment. We must collectively cross our fingers that we will narrowly escape The Princeton Review’s list of top party schools next year, as we are teetering on the edge of being publicly exposed as a wild bunch. Officials at other Boston-area colleges have been quicker to address this issue than Harvard...
...about the Lions: they’re not as bad as Dartmouth.Princeton, while no longer in its championship form of 2007, is a competent if mediocre squad that should have little trouble managing a victory in this one.Prediction: Princeton 21, Columbia 13YALE (1-1, 0-1 Ivy) VS. HOLY CROSS (1-2)If Ivy League football were a reality TV show, Yale would be calling up Harvard to establish an uneasy and secretive alliance aimed at getting Brown and Cornell kicked off the island. Unfortunately for the Bulldogs, this game is every man for himself, and things aren?...