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...conservative and liberal groups on campus share a common woe: Many students find partisan political sentiments difficult for the moderate mouth to swallow. A die-hard liberal throughout high school, I often feel as if my reluctance to write-off final clubs as dens of sin or bang a drum in a throbbing mass of protesters precludes me from identifying as a left-winger at Harvard. On the other hand, no part of me wishes to identify with the posh and elitist “ancient principles” of “Western civilization” propagated...
...later, equally addictive track, appropriately entitled “Nicotine,” inspires the feeling of blissful laziness. Leading with a quiet snare drum-roll followed by Sciubba’s languid lyrics that drift through the song like smoke, the song has the effect of an ocean shore or an open field...
...vocally Beck is more than up to the challenge of flowing from bass and drum grooves into atmospheric vocal melodies and back again...
...there’s still the feeling that Beck is reliant on his old tricks. Opening track “Elevator Music” is pure “Odelay”-style funk, featuring Beck’s signature off-key rhyming and a raw drum beat. On tracks like this one Beck seems afraid to stretch out, sticking with what he’s done before and throwing in some digital sounds for decoration...
Last week, news outlets around the world announced that Madonna was reinventing herself, yet again. Although she has not abandoned using sex and religion to get attention, she has found a new way to drum up record sales: charity. The former material girl was to adopt a one-year-old boy from Malawi, an African country with one million children orphaned by the AIDS epidemic.Only 24 hours after this story broke, however, Madonna’s publicist insisted that the performer was not so much adopting one child but “kind of adopting an entire country of children...