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...musicians. A morose punk rocker in painfully tight leather, whose music marries Alice Cooper to Tracy Chapman, splits Government Center with the occasional trio of starving violinists from the New England Conservatory. The would-be blues guitarist battles an aging Rastafarian below Harvard Square. All create a soothing din amidst the T's unkind acoustics...
Serious critics of the World Trade Organization may be facing a problem familiar to that of moderate Republicans - making their voices heard above the extremist din in their own tent. President Clinton arrived in a Seattle under siege Wednesday, after police Tuesday imposed a curfew to curb the protests that disrupted the opening of the WTO summit. An impossibly broad coalition of activists - ranging from anarchists to environmentalists and the pillars of U.S. organized labor - have condemned the WTO as a forum of corporate interests with growing power to overrule national governments on such issues as protecting the environment...
...pray to God, the same God of the Christians and the Jews." He promised that the mosque would be "the brother of the church." But worship always carries a political motif in the hotly contested Holy Land. The Nazareth mosque, for example, will be dedicated to Shihab al-Din, the nephew of the legendary Salah el-Din - Saladin - who drove the Christian crusaders from Jerusalem in the 12th century...
...late August, my co-editor and I met in Bryant Park, New York City, to discuss our magazine. I had a Rolling Rock, Mr. Paul sipped Merlot. That day, I signed myself up for a Scrutiny on the Harvard-Yale game. That balmy cosmopolitan evening, under the din of 1,000 schmoozing yuppies, I decided to make early November a miserable time of year. What was I thinking...
Every Sunday afternoon at one o'clock, a solemn, slightly misshapen din lifts and breaks over the somnolent river houses. Abandoned, commanding, booming through the streets, timbred and shaped by the turn of the buildings, the Lowell House bells ring out in their own, odd beauty. Whether woken or wondering, distracted or listening, each of us residing below the Yard has been touched at some point by these instruments. Over time they have become an indelible part of the Harvard landscape...