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...know what we have lost. What can the terrorists chalk up in their favour? In fact very little. As yet no one has had the courage to come up and claim the infernal act in their name. Even the often-mentioned Osama bin Laden has apparently denied involvement. This is significant. It was obviously an act of blood revenge, a subject about which anthropologists have long written about in terms of the tribal codes of the Middle East. There is, regrettably, nothing very surprising in this. There had been too much murder going on in Israel and the West Bank...
...Traffic,” which revolves around an introspective bass riff and heart-on-sleeve lyrics by Bitch: “All we have is our love and our guts, baby.” The melody takes a back seat for much of the album though, in favour of repetitive bass lines and vituperative rap. Folk rap has becoming increasingly popular since tracks like Everlast’s “What it’s Like,” but this is some of the first folk rap to unite the angry sexual preoccupation...
...that in mind, it's hard to fault the cast given that they've been given such empty and stale material, but each member really doesn't seem to want to be there. Tim Robbins must be appearing either because of blackmail, contractual obligations to Disney or a personal favour to Brian De Palma because he phones in most of his performance (probably when he realized how bad the whole project was going to be). Don Cheadle, who has previously been a solid bit player, lacks charisma here and Jerry O'Connell has the dubious distinction of being upstaged...
...Thursday column, "Single-sex Schools and the Spirit of Title IX," Talia Milgrom-Elcott discusses the legal challenge to an all-girl public school in East Harlem. Milgrom-Elcott finds it ironic that the Title IX civil rights laws can strike down conditions that favour women over...
...similar fashion, the Harvard women's soccer team lost one of its best assistants. After three years behind head coach Tim Wheaton, Jodi Kenyon departed Cambridge in favour of Burlington, Vermont and a head position with the Catamount squad...