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...October 1979, photographer Anton Corbijn, the son of a rural Dutch Protestant minister, set out for England in pursuit of Unknown Pleasures. That was the title of the dark, expansive debut album from the Manchester post-punk band Joy Division, and to Corbijn it was an artistic clarion call. "I thought, 'I want to be where that music comes from,' " says Corbijn, now 52. "It was my mission to photograph Joy Division." Within two weeks he took an iconic picture of the band that showed singer and lyricist Ian Curtis turning back toward the camera, with unwitting portent, while...
...Sometime in the 22nd century (if we get there as a species), schoolchildren in a new dark age will read about all the sirens going off at the same time - "ice melting, species vanishing and cities choking the people who live in them" - and no one in power ever giving these life-or-death matters the full, single-minded attention they so desperately deserved. Carlos A. Leo Hollywood...
...Nadler, “having a level 70 character is a bit of a status symbol among people who play videogames.”Anthony R. Casagrande ’10 is one of these privileged few, with two such characters at this scant-achieved level. Tall, with dark, long curly hair and glasses, Casagrande is rather nonchalant about this double feat.“You can get a character up to 70 playing less than two hours a day for three months,” shrugs Casagrande, who plays on average ten to fifteen hours a week?...
...Iraqi government, while acknowledging that the country still faces many hurdles.“The U.S. is our ally in our pursuit of freedom and human dignity,” he said. “I salute the soldiers standing side-by-side with us against a dark, totalitarian ideology.” Zebari emphasized that, in principle, he did not want foreign troops on Iraqi soil. But he said that “as a result of mistakes made during the last four years, we have a difficult situation.” A premature withdrawal of American troops, Zebari...
...individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina. But Eva was a unique phenomenon in Argentine history, so I'm not foolish enough to compare myself with her. Women of my generation owe her a debt: When we came of age during the dark [military] dictatorship of the 1970s, we had her example of passion and combativeness to get us through...