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...dusty Western dreams, exemplifies Calla’s strengths. The layered vocals and unexpected sounds, like the machine-screechings introducing “Stand Paralyzed” or the “Edward Scissorhands”-worthy ambient monster noise in “Malo,” expand the songs from simple folksy melodies into distinct, subtly beautiful moods. Melodically mournful guitars back ghostly lyrics on “A Sure Shot”: “In my mind / You’re in my head / At this moment you’re as good as dead...
...political reality that the British `lost' the south more than a year ago," Cordesman, who has traveled to the region frequently, writes in a Wednesday analysis from his office at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. "The Shi'ites will take over, Iranian influence will probably expand, and more Sunnis, Christians, and other minorities will leave...
...challenging U.S. and Iraqi forces as they attempt to quell the bombings and bloodshed that have gripped the city for the past year. That leaves insurgent Sunnis as the main target of the effort. "In effect," Cordesman says, "both the U.K. and the U.S. may end up acting to expand Shi'ite influence in very different ways." That, of course, would expand the influence of Shi'ite Iran in Iraq, and unsettle majority-Sunni states like Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia...
...averse brogue is conspicuously absent here on campus. This slight difference in inflection underscores a vast cultural schism between those affiliated with Harvard and Boston’s locals—a divide that dampens town-gown relations and could hamper the University’s plans to expand into Allston...
...even if the institutional conservatism of professorial politics yields to such reform, the culture of teaching at Harvard can advance only as far as its culture of learning. So long as students demand that student-faculty solidarity expand in place of self-sufficiency, that four years of learning somehow be handed down from on high, any improvement in the quality of instruction available will be lost in the shallows of a passive education. School has an uncanny way of getting in the way of an education; while any effort toward uniting the two is a step forward, to forget that...