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...underground- music scene has been faster than any London tube-station escalator. Almost unheard of a few months ago, this month Franz Ferdinand found itself on the cover of Britain's tastemaking bible the NME with the headline: this band will change your life. Their second single, a riff-driven disco stomp called Take Me Out, entered the British charts at No. 3, boding well for the release of their first eponymous album on Feb. 9. Why all the hype? Their winning formula is exciting but familiar: a tightly arranged take on late-'70s influences, from Talking Heads...
...We’re not going to be driven by the Shin case,” he says. “We’re going to be driven by taking the best possible care of our students...
...residents of Charlesview, the prospect of Harvard taking their homes is actually exciting. Such a deal would spell the end to the flooded hallways and renovation-driven rent increases of this unsightly concrete building that is literally sinking into the ground...
...CRASH WAS CAUSED BY A WHITE FIAT, POSSIBLY DRIVEN BY A BRITISH AGENT. Traces of paint found on the wreck suggest that it glanced off a white Fiat made in the '80s, and a pair of witnesses saw such a car in the tunnel where the crash occurred. But plotting a crash would have been hard since the couple decided where they were going just a few minutes before hopping into their car. And would agents really use a decade-old jalopy as a murder weapon? Of course, that might be the true genius of the plan...
...wonder lovers talk all night or walk till dawn, write extravagant poetry and self-revealing e-mails, cross continents or oceans to hug for just a weekend, change jobs or lifestyles, even die for one another. Drenched in chemicals that bestow focus, stamina and vigor, and driven by the motivating engine of the brain, lovers succumb to a Herculean courting urge...