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...some tracks Autoditacker is downright funky. Occasionally they play and sample live instruments, which after a few tracks of electronic barrage is refreshing. "Tamagnocci," for example, starts out with a sampled wah guitar, live drums come in, some synth sounds and a vamping bass line are mixed in and then Mouse on Mars gets down to some serious business. The result is a hard-rocking synthesis of K.C. and The Sunshine Band, Jimi Hendrix and Stereolab...
...thinking people. But, in her article, Rawlins goes farther than that. She writes, "Right now, most of Harvard's students-as women and as people of color-do not have adequate representation on the council." Her reason is not that the current representatives are irresponsible, or negligent, or even downright dumb. Rather, she justifies her claim by stating that "last year, white male undergraduates were doubly represented by their student government...white men made up 50 percent of the council, but only 25 percent of the student body." Therefore, students who were not white and male were "underrepresented...
...asked them how he could use his fortune to improve the quality of life and institutions in America. Out of that meeting came a broad-brushed decision to devote attention and money to inner-city education, crime and incarceration, and professions such as law and medicine. Some funding is downright civic minded, including a high school-debate program and a $12 million commitment to the Algebra Project, which seeks to improve the mathematical and intuitive skills of students all over the country...
...season can't sideline basketball's mouthiest trash talker. Spike Lee is calling the shots on the set of He Got Game. DENZEL WASHINGTON had to adapt his style to Spike's X's and 0's. Denzel's screen personas usually range from the inhumanly brave to the downright angelic, but in Game he plays the ultimate deadbeat dad. His character, Jake Shuttlesworth, is doing time for killing his wife. Freedom beckons, in the form of a Governor's pardon, if he can persuade his estranged son Jesus, a high school basketball star played by Milwaukee Bucks guard...
Sitting ringside at the Tyson-Holyfield bout in June apparently gave Christian Slater all the wrong ideas. The toothsome actor turned downright mean at an L.A. party, allegedly punching his girlfriend and biting a man who tried to come to her aid. Facing possible charges of assault, Slater later issued a statement expressing regret about the incident...