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...baseball player, but failed to make the cut as a starter for his high school team. Disappointed, he wandered off and by chance heard Fats Domino’s music coming through a window.“It was the same thing that I listened to in my room, except newer,” Boyd says. In that moment, everything clicked, and he realized that he wanted to become a producer.“The thing that I loved more than anything else was mixing,” says Boyd. “I still believe that the best records...
...hunger for such adult dialogue, does it really have to be accompanied by childish crudeness? Actually, don't answer that. In any case, the media figures and politicians who clown around with Imus can pretend that the show is really about informed conversation or pop sociology or anything except junior-high-level teasing, but its true appeal for them lies in the seal of approval Imus bestows...
...local district attorney’s office said they had no recollection of the case but provided The Crimson with documents showing Godelia had been charged three times for criminal trespass, once for sexual assault, and once for burglary between 1994 and 1998; all of those charges were dropped except two of the criminal trespass charges, each leading to a year’s jail sentence for Godelia. (Godelia said he spent less than five months in jail...
...ways that scrapping early admissions would affect the representation of low-income applicants to Harvard. Avery highlighted a “pipeline problem” that Harvard and other elite institutions have experienced in the past, saying that “schools can’t reform anything except the students provided to them.” “What we found at Harvard was the introduction of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative increased representation,” Avery said, “and it particularly did it by drawing more people into the applicant pool...
There’s nothing less satisfying than a bad ending to a mystery novel—except one with no ending at all, only themes strewn about everywhere and an excessively long and unnecessary line of accusations made at an innocent and unknowing reader. It seems that in “Angelica,” the latest novel from Arthur Phillips ’90, the plot builds to such a point that there is nowhere to go but to a tragic stand-still. Perhaps that’s why he recycles the plot three times from the perspective...