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...delights. Unsurprisingly, “The Real Feel” is so unfocused and incoherent that it sounds either like a throwaway bunch of songs collected over the years or an intentional repudiation of the conventional notion of the album as a self-contained work of art. It is difficult to resist the comparison to Malkmus, whose albums both alone and with the Jicks have been notable for their internal consistency. Every Pavement album had a distinct character too, from the sunny melodicism of “Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain” to the deliberate inscrutability...

Author: By Keshava D. Guha, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spiral Stairs | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

TransportAzumah is facing demands from the Cambridge Licensing Commission that the company apply for a jitney license, required for businesses looking to transfer people into and out of the city, according to company founder Joel Azumah. The license could be quite difficult to obtain, he said...

Author: By Damilare K Sonoiki, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bus Service Struggles for Harvard-N.Y. Line | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...Ergo” deserves a certain degree of credit if only for its ability to genuinely terrify. It would be difficult to find a postwar book that leaves an impression as petrifying as “Ergo.” But a novel, due to its inherent features as a genre, tends to reach its height when it delivers multi-layered thoughts and sensations that expand themselves throughout the breadth of reading. Instead of delivering on this front, Jakov Lind limited the artistic potential of the novel by consciously designating a purpose to it. “Ergo...

Author: By Shijung Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Austrian Lind’s ‘Ergo’ a Labor of Post-War Melancholy | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

While the FDA only requires a two-day certification course for a robotic surgery license, Hu said the surgery is difficult to master...

Author: By Stephanie B. Garlock, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Surgical Outcomes Are Questioned | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...finding those logs is going to be difficult now that some of the wood is already on its way to becoming tables and chairs destined for foreign markets. It was a free-for-all, says Do Van Dong, who lives not far from the Vu Gia river in Quang Nam. Thousands of residents converged on the logjam at the Quang Hue bridge, he says. Despite the churning currents, people waded in to salvage the wood. Groups of men carried trees into town and sold them that same day. "Some even brought power saws to the site and cut the logs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Typhoon, Illegal Logging Back in Spotlight in Vietnam | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

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