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...village, Serambut Besar. She stayed there for three days before gaining the courage to board a boat for a day's journey downriver to Sampit. Now her baby?it is a girl but as yet has no name, a domestic pleasure she can't yet contemplate?has a fever. Ma'rus doesn't have the strength to fight for a place on the government trucks bringing refugees to boats leaving for Java. This Tuesday morning, after five days in Sampit, she didn't even try, ignoring the shouts and sounds of blows as men fought to get away...
...FUNK FEVER, at Loker Commons February 23On Friday Feb.23, in a corner of Loker Commons, the first of three bands performing for Project Health's benefit concert, Funk Fever, kicked off the night's three consecutive hours of shows. Those who endured the late start witnessed a fabulous evening of events. DPH Funk Machine played music as eclectic as its name, mixing the sounds of the saxophones of Rob Lee '03 and Joseph Cousin '02, the keyboard of Alex Gordon '04, the drums of Vahid Hakimzadeh '04, the electric guitar of David Plunkett '04, the bass guitar of Previn Warren...
...first day I walked into a YMCA weight room, a scrawny kid just entering those joyous years of puberty. There was a tinny radio in one corner with a coat hanger for an antenna cranking out the Bee Gees. Bulked-up men were whistling the tune to Saturday Night Fever as they heaved and bench-pressed rusty iron. One of them glanced at my skinny legs and rumpled socks. "Be careful," he warned me. "At your age, this could stunt your growth...
Until Mussolini drained the mosquito-infested marshes south of Rome in the 1930s, malaria struck the city with such deadly regularity each summer that it was called the Roman fever. Last week two British scientists said they have found what may be the first genetic evidence that the killer disease was a blight on life in ancient Rome as well...
While my father is not the Nugent who sang Cat Scratch Fever, he and I have had more conversations about rock 'n' roll than about anything else. Rock was the greatest joy of his youth and continues to be the greatest joy of mine. I can't imagine what my childhood would have been like without my father's rock 'n' roll, and I can't imagine what my taste in rock 'n' roll would be like if I hadn't learned about it from my father...