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Frontman Isaac Brock’s endearingly whiny voice and distinct guitar sound remain, but something seems amiss in Everywhere—as if the energy has been sucked completely dry from Modest Mouse. Brian Deck’s production removes the edge and luster from the Modest Mouse sound, leaving the band sounding too dull and warm. The first track, “Willful Suspension of Disbelief,” starts ethereally with a falsetto “everywhere” layered over and over in the background, but this soon proves mind-numbing rather than inspiring. The next...
With this constrained focus, the Kellers come to the somewhat structurally rigid conclusion that two changes separate the last 70 years of Harvard history into three distinct eras. First, under the direction of University President James B. Conant 14 (from 1933 to 1953), the University transformed from the Brahmin university of the first third of the 20th century to a meritocratic one. Relying on demographic shifts and the detailed dissection of many of the controversies and developments of the 1930s and 1940s, the Kellers show how the University increasingly embraced the ideal of the best and the brightest, even when...
Because terrorists of this new breed are motivated mainly by religious fervor and are part of a global network, they are tough to take out. "Traditional" terrorist groups like the I.R.A. or the Basque group ETA have had distinct nationalist goals; their operatives have been recruited from a relatively small pool, defined by national allegiance, and have often been eventually wooed into mainstream politics. Al-Qaeda is different. On the very fringe of the Islamic world, within which its methods provoke widespread revulsion, its political goal, if it can be said to have one, is the creation of a global...
Judith G. Kelley, a lecturer who teaches the Government seminar “International Organization,” said she noticed a distinct change in the focus of class discussion on her seminar’s first...
...album, piano-wielding diva Tori Amos has created distinct personalities for each of her 12 songs, complete with photos featuring Amos with 12 different hairstyles, costumes and names for each of her incarnations, with enigmatic phrases by Neil Gaiman to explain them: The heartless vamp of “I’m not in love” is labeled, “She forgets him utterly and forever;” while the serenely blonde figure of death from “Time” reminds: “One day you will open your eyes...