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However, nearly the entire rest of the album falls into two unfortunate categories: that of exasperating melancholy and sappy happiness. In “True Loves,” the chief example of the former group, the piano plays in a minor key at an unbearably slow pace. Wainwright?...

Author: By Alexander E. Traub, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rufus Wainwright | 4/20/2010 | See Source »

The summer is normally a bit of a break, even for the downhearted. This summer won't be like that for most Americans. It will be an anxious four months as people watch the infrequent signals that may tell them how 2009 will end. It is a bit like Greek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summer 2009: The Long Wait for Evidence of a Recovery | 5/26/2009 | See Source »

Richard's parents divorced when he was 11. He left school at 16, as soon as he legally could. By then he had drifted into the south London world of street crime and car theft. At 17, after mugging a senior citizen, he was jailed for the first time. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shoe Bomber's World | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

Richard's parents divorced when he was 11. He left school at 16, as soon as he legally could. By then he had drifted into the south London world of street crime and car theft. At 17, after mugging a senior citizen, he was jailed for the first time. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shoe Bomber's World | 2/16/2002 | See Source »

Their pawns include La Presidente de Tourvel (Nikki Columbus '97), a virtuous married woman whom Valmont successfully seduces and then rejects. Valmont delights in corrupting virtue with sensual sinfulness. Cecile Volanges (Sara Boyle '00) and Madame de Volanges (Anna Lewis '99), who are embroiled in their own mother-daughter struggle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Complex and Witty 'Liaisons' at the Agassiz | 11/7/1996 | See Source »

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