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...quest for excellence and the compulsive need to excel are entirely different. Perhaps the ability of the less compulsively driven students to understand this is why the old adage holds true: After a few years here, regardless of the number of mornings spent postering, afternoons spent harmonising or evenings spent reviewing, we’ll all be Harvard graduates. And worthy ones at that...
Their biggest single, “Get Myself Arrested” was released in 1996, and got a fair amount of attention, but they are not and never have been a single-driven group. Their albums are dense, complex affairs that sound almost schizophrenic as the band shifts vocalists and styles, toying with everything from goofy electronica to raging blues. The first four tracks off their first album Bring It On sound like the work of four different bands. Their latest album, In Our Gun, was no less chameleonic, though the individual songs were less mercurial, favoring instead a more...
...wack, the beats are fighting back,” Lif declaims on “Return of the B-Boy,” a seven and a half minute epic that morphs from a funky battle rhyme to a sparse drum-driven speed verse in which Lif realises that his greatest opponent is himself...
...because Sachs was “such a forceful person,” Rodrik says, other faculty members and researchers were driven away from...
...years, I see ArchNet not solely rooted at MIT,” he said. “I see it being driven at the grassroots level from schools in the Islamic world really contributing to it, with the continuing dialogue with Western schools...