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Welcome aboard, sir. Clark's announcement that he was running landed like a rocket-propelled grenade in the messy bunker that is the Democratic presidential field. He's off to a late start, but thanks to an Internet-driven draft movement, Clark has the beginnings of an organization and the promise of millions of dollars. Making the rounds of Democratic salons in New York and Los Angeles in recent weeks, he has wowed some of the people who could gather millions more. Within 24 hours of getting into the race, Clark had a list of congressional endorsements more impressive than...
WOUNDED. AKILA AL-HASHEMI, 50, one of three female members of Iraq's U.S.-backed Governing Council and a leading candidate for the job of Iraq's U.N representative; by a bullet to the abdomen, fired by gunmen near her home in western Baghdad as she was being driven to work; in the first assassination attempt on a member of the interim government. Doctors said al-Hashemi was in critical but stable condition after surgery...
This local duo (Amanda Palmer, piano and voice; Brian Viglione, drums), sometimes described for its theatric, piano-driven songs as “punk cabaret,” celebrates the release of its new record. Some may also recognize Palmer from her stint as the whitewashed statue/street performer in the Square, which helped earn her the title “Best Indie Art Ringleader” from the Boston Pheonix in 2002. 8 p.m. $12; 18+. Paradise Rock Club, 967-969 Commonwealth...
...endearing. Pre-Marxist revolutionary Colin Meloy is still penning dime-novel tales about dissolute seamen, WWI doughboys, a blindfolded “Jewess” and a rascally “chimbley sweep.” The songs verge on Gothic, but only in a literary sense—driven by nostalgia, they sound as if the Decemberists have never heard anything recorded after 1975, let alone a Cure record...
...have visited 142 different colleges in the last 6 years, and 3 in the last 3 weeks! With the exception of places like Yale and Princeton, I have found that Harvard students are profoundly different than just about every other college kid in one fundamental way: they are so driven. They work like dogs...