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...Crimson victory was a twenty-minute stretch of the first half during which the Harvard offense scored seven consecutive times, holding a 7-1 lead by the time the dust had settled...
...been made over Rivers Cuomo’s time at Harvard last semester, many other, significantly younger, undergraduates have their own visions of rock stardom. Most of these dreams fade well before graduation, as consulting jobs and graduate school applications loom, and electric guitars and drum sets gather dust, waiting for their demotion to keepsakes mounted ironically on Brooklyn loft walls...
...suspected eating disorder many years ago may have led to the permanent brain damage that landed Schiavo in the middle of a national debate. When the dust settles, I hope politicians and the media will turn their attention to the potentially fatal effects of eating disorders. Mark Reese Draper, Utah...
Devoted Springsteen fans will sense immediately where Devils & Dust is headed, largely because the Boss has left his boot prints on this territory before, most famously on 1982's Nebraska and 1995's The Ghost of Tom Joad. Those albums chronicled closed lives in open spaces with the kind of ascetic social realism you might find in a particularly earnest newspaper series, but they also had Springsteen's venerable empathy to warm them up and dramatize them. Fact and feeling mingle again on Devils, but not always in the proper proportion. The boxer on The Hitter who passes his estranged...
...unlikely that Devils & Dust will be anyone's favorite Springsteen record, but even the weaker songs reveal things about their creator. It isn't just that the man can play his guitar but that he changes his voice and pronunciation subtly on each song to sound more like the character he's singing about. The Boss cares about these people--maybe too much. But better a bleeding heart than none at all. --By Josh Tyrangiel