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Miles Davis will forever be known for his fearless inventiveness. Unlike most of his contemporaries, he never stopped finding new approaches to the music he played. Coming out of the '60s with immortal recordings like Kind of Blue and The Birth of the Cool behind him, Miles was looking in a new direction. Reciprocating the admiration shown for him by such popular artists as Jimi Hendrix and Sly and the Family Stone, Miles pushed his band into new, totally uncharted territory. To some degree, the map of the journey was set by Bitches Brew, Miles' controversial electric jazz album...
Molly Hennessy-Fiske may be able to "Say Anything" in her column on student life ("For Rawlins, Two Lunches and Coffee is Business as Usual," Sept. 26) but she might want to say something. Her scoop on the daily planner preferences of our fearless Undergraduate Council president, Lamelle D. Rawlins '99, masquerades as a piece about students' daily planners, but instead comes off as an authorized biography of our most prominent campus politico...
...Jiang's fearless economic move is not the only sign of his confidence. Appointed as a hard-liner in the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, he has recently shown an inclination to loosen some political controls. Explaining the government's sudden tolerance for newspaper and magazine articles challenging Beijing's policies, Liu Ji, a close Jiang adviser, says, "People want to air their opinions, as they are now well fed and better clothed and better educated. It is a sign of the nation's vigor and prosperity...
...study of infant grief. From its poignant first image--of a four-year-old child (Victoire Thivisol) compulsively sucking her thumb, the only part of her forearm not in a cast after a crash that killed her mother--the film rarely leaves the wracked, haunted face of its fearless heroine. Many relatives think they are helping the girl: her aunt (Claire Nebout), who fills her with stories of God's craving for mommies; her young cousins, who try alternately teasing and cheering her; a boy at school who says, "You killed your mom because you're mean." But Ponette...
During a characteristically misguided State of the Union address a few years back, our not-so-fearless leader extolled the virtues of the information superhighway to a cheering Congress...