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...www.petsoundsbar.se, for a jukebox inspired cocktail (a peach vodka concoction called A Boy Named Sue is a big seller) and a lobster soup followed by a chocolate terrine - surprisingly sophisticated fare for a venue with a rockabilly-and-indie-loving DJ. If the bar has a familiar ring to it, that's because, like Pet Sounds Records down the road, Skanegatan 53, tel: (46-8) 702 97 98; www.petsounds.se/web/, it was named after the classic 1966 Beach Boys album. Musicians from far and wide flock to the store, but the most prolific customer? That'd be filmmaker Quentin Tarantino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Cool Up North | 2/21/2007 | See Source »

Certain accents are widespread. Posh Queen’s English of the Eton or Cambridge variety is so familiar as to sound humdrum. Such accents, however, are all linked by a common denominator: a decidedly non-plebian heritage. By contrast, the Boston accent has a distinctly blue-collar identity...

Author: By Stephen C. Bartenstein | Title: Culture Clash | 2/20/2007 | See Source »

...faculty and graduate students who offer its constituent courses have lacked the discipline to keep within the confines of its guiding philosophy. The new Core offered by the Task Force, by virtue of its opacity and over-ambitious crossing of disciplinary lines, is on the same all-too-familiar trajectory. Prospective students be warned; it’s only a matter of time before you, too, will be shopping Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 20, “Designing the American City...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg | Title: Generalized Education | 2/20/2007 | See Source »

...final score.COLUMBIA 27, HARVARD 16Harvard’s second Ivy opponent of the weekend dealt the Crimson its second straight loss as Columbia improved to 3-2 in the Ivies, good for second place in the Ivy standings. Harvard found itself in familiar territory when the Lions seized a 10-0 lead with a pin and a major decision in the first two bouts.No. 16 Meltzer put Harvard on the board with a pin in 6:16, and O’Connor recorded a 12-0 major decision to tie the score.The Crimson would not win another match until Caputo...

Author: By Tony D. Qian, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wrestling Leaves Mats Winless | 2/20/2007 | See Source »

After the U.S., Israeli and Palestinian summit aimed at re-starting Middle East peace talks failed, a familiar litany of complaints followed: the Palestinians grumbled that the U.S. was too pro-Israel to act as an honest mediator, while the Israelis expressed frustration because there was nobody among the Palestinians capable of stopping terrorist attacks. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas described the summit aimed at re-starting Middle East peace talks as "a big, big failure." But according to Abbas aides, the meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert almost never took place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Summit That Almost Didn't Happen | 2/20/2007 | See Source »

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