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Within days a New York publisher will ship 27,000 copies of its latest release to bookstores across the country. Along with this merchandise will arrive advertising posters--de rigueur in these hard-marketing times--bearing a reproduction of the book's dust- jacket cover and 10,000 audiotapes of an unabridged reading of the words inside. Nothing particularly unusual about all this, except that the contents of the book in question have been around, in one form or another, for about 2,700 years...
...Life" drew the applause and whistles of many slightly older members of the crowd. Songs like "Super Bon Bon" with its wicked uptempo chorus forced many others and me into that head-nodding-and-shaking-back-and-forth motion. Doughty's onstage mannerisms mimic Rage lead singer Zack De La Rocha, and if the lyrics were about some abused people somewhere, I wouldn't have noticed the difference...
Most riveting, though, is the keyboard and sampling of Mark De Gli Antoni. Moving from swing music to random movie quotes (the prevailing fad of alternative music today), he contributes to the measured chaos of Soul Coughing. This is a sound that won't create a Dead following, or break into the mainstream a la Hootie (and who would want to?), but it will captivate club audiences and generate some fine bootleg tapes to exchange for that DMB at UVA concert...
These violations include the symbolic attempt to undermine the sanctity of the al-Aqsa Mosque and the denial of Palestinian access to Arab East Jerusalem, a city central to Palestinian life. These are aggravated by the systematic de-Arabization of the city, and the destruction of any demographic obstacles that halt the complete annexation of the illegally-occupied city. Essentially, Palestinians have been reduced to foreigners in their own city. The violated peace process, as it stands, has done little to stop Israeli abuse, and this is what the Palestinians protest...
...argumentation, biased generalizations and misleading and manipulative conclusions. We must transcend the limitations of the peace process, for which, as Danilewitz concludes, reality has set in, and pursue a durable settlement based on the shared principles of social equality, political justice, national dignity and individual respect. --Leila Suwwan de Felipe, '99 Waqaas Fahmawi, '99 Members, Harvard Society for Arab Students