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The group recently traveled to the Canadian-American club in Watertown for a night of Boston Urban Ceilidh (KAY-lee). This style of Gaelic music and dance is a mixture of the modern and the traditional. Juxtaposing bagpipes and fiddles with electric guitars, the rock-influenced music places an emphasis...
What makes Mississauga so fascinating, though, is the way that such lyrics don’t seem to fight for attention, but just simply rest on the (very catchy) melodies. Punk bands for years have been singing the same sort of things and, often in Germany, sometimes dramatizing them on...
Iraq, by most accounts, continues to disintegrate. In the week before the U.S. election, an Iraqi national security aide to interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi allowed that 5% of the recently trained Iraqi troops were probably terrorist infiltrators. "I love David Petraeus," a retired four-star general told me, referring...
Your article on molecular biologist Dean Hamer's discovery of a gene for spirituality, the so-called God gene, put too much emphasis on the religious aspect of spirituality [Oct. 25]. While such a gene may very well cause those who carry it to experience self-transcendence and to have...
It wasn’t always like this. Back in the day, there was actually a real emphasis on the great works of the Western tradition. If you were an English major at Syracuse, you were busy reading Shakespeare and Milton and Hemingway. You didn’t have time...