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...most instrumentally fleshed-out and gorgeous album Oldham has created.Recorded in Reykjavik, Iceland all the sounds, from the desperate bombast of “The Seedling” to the barely-whispered finger-picking of “Wai” have an icy purity befitting the Emily Dickinson poem—“After great pain a formal feeling comes”—from which the album gets its title (“First--Chill--then Stupor--then the letting go”).Indeed, the standout track, “Cursed Sleep,” might...
...Space Organization's ground-based Very Large Telescope in Chile revealed the existence of a galaxy dating to about 1 billion years after the Big Bang that was far larger and more mature looking than the primordial dwarf galaxies everyone assumed they would see. "It was unexpected," admits Mark Dickinson of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, in Tucson, Ariz., who worked on the project. "But maybe it shouldn't have been." The theorists might have things all wrong. But it could also simply be that any population will have a few individuals that are way outside the average--humans...
...civil rights groups are almost certainly right, said Victor Romero, associate dean of Penn State's Dickinson School of Law. While the Supreme Court hasn't spoken specifically about exactly this kind of local ordinance, it has long made clear that the federal government has the specific and exclusive right to admit or exclude any foreigners and regulate the terms of their stay in the United States. "Clearly this is the prerogative of the federal government... clearly [the Hazleton ordinance] is unconstitutional," Romero said...
Actually, no. And thus begins their higher education about higher education. "The more sophisticated kids who take on the search as a research project, they are getting past the prestige," says Petrella. Students see that schools like Vassar, Lehigh, Colgate and Dickinson really care about the quality of undergraduate life, she says. Since many counselors will advise the more anxious students to apply to at least nine schools (three stretches, three matches and three safeties), students run spreadsheets rating various criteria on a scale of 1 to 10, from the food to the student-teacher ratio to rates of acceptance...
...extremely strong sense of hierarchy,” he wrote in an e-mail. “I’m not sure that’s compatible with an honor code or, more fundamentally, to creating one in the first place.”Matthew J. Dickinson, a former Harvard professor who is now at Middlebury College, agreed that the culture of the administration impacts the potential for success.“[At Harvard], there might be a little more of an ethos of ‘we need to police the students’ than I find here...