Word: fates
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...CHILI PEPPERS STADIUM ARCADIUM The Chili Peppers have always been proud hedonists, so their decade of musical coasting has seemed less a squandering of talent than an example of character as fate. But with producer Rick Rubin pushing their buttons, the Peppers summoned up two discs and 28 tracks' worth of ambition, and sure enough, they can still write hits. The first disc, subtitled Jupiter, is wall-to-wall melodies that bob and weave on Flea's bass playing and Anthony Kiedis' vocal cords. (Lyrically he's still concerned with the abstract fantasia that is his California life...
Fetching water seems a mundane job--unless you're in the midst of a genocide. In a new online video game at DarfurIsDying.com players take the role of Darfuris and must complete basic tasks. Those who fail to do so learn what fate could befall them at the hands of Janjaweed militias: rape, kidnapping, murder. Susana Ruiz, a University of Southern California student who helped design the game, which is backed by college channel mtvU, hopes it will inspire players to take real-world action by writing President Bush or lobbying schools to divest holdings in firms that operate...
...attempts to inveigle himself into the U.S. via the fictional Caspian splinter state of Absurdistan, only to get tangled up with the cynical local oil politics and the local dictator's foxy daughter. All the while he bemoans his fate with Nabokovian wit and efficiency--when he alludes to the "typical drabness of the one-room Soviet apartment, with the bulbous refrigerator shuddering in the corner like an ICBM before launch," you can practically smell the spoiled milk...
This new episode, more so than its unsavory predecessors, has been an opportunity for bloggers and snarky columnists alike (ahem) to shake their heads smugly and tsk-tsk at the unhappy fate of elite college students in an age of unfettered corporate capitalism and adolescent ambition...
...have to be involved in that program in some way...in order to vote [on a student’s proposal],” she says. Consequently, a student’s connections at the IOP used to factor heavily in the fate of his policy group proposal...