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...lead with some jazzy zoot-suit era tunes and herky-jerky dance moves, but now the Harvard University Band is pulling out all the stops, busting out some Abba as Howie Mandel's crew tries to recover. UPDATE: The BU band made a nice comeback...but Harvard's finest musicians just established that they indeed "Got the Funk...
...points but she’s so much more than that. If you watch Caitlin play she could not have any points and she would still be the best defensemen.” Cahow has reached the century mark in points in a season that may be her finest campaign yet in a Crimson uniform. She is second in the nation among defenseman with 1.04 points per game, a testament to her versatility. While Cahow has paved her way through the NCAA as a hard-nosed defender, she is a natural forward who plays up front for the United States...
...gave the world glimpses of an astoundingly rich literary tradition. An 1899 history of Japanese literature was the only reference available in English at that time. Keene's feat was stupendous. Just over a decade into his study of the language, he navigated more than a millennium of its finest compositions - the creation myths of Japan's oldest book, the 7th century Kojiki; early poetry from the 8th century collection Manyoshu; the sublime socio-psychological epics by the legendary 11th century Heian court ladies; Zen-inflected 14th century battle tales and Noh dramas; haiku, travelogues, kabuki and puppet plays...
...when confronted with the war’s greatest indignity, anonymous death. Even when writing about the unknown slain stomped deep into mass graves, Faust invests her subjects with significance, granting the soldiers a Good Death a century after their first. Faust’s humor emerges subtly, the finest example coming when she turns her attention to the fashion of mourning. Women at home bought rich black silks and velvets to mark the socially-required mourning that could last up to two and a half years. At one store in Philadelphia women could purchase black fabrics of every design...
...Drunk to Dream,” and the hopelessly defiant crescendo of “I’ll Dream Alone” project a moving triptych of the death of the relationship, and, taken individually, make for some of the album’s finest songs.But “Distortion” has a few notable flaws. While Simms’ unassumingly beautiful voice can generally be counted on to carry listeners through the least-inspired of Merritt’s lyrics, the boring melodies of “Courtesans” renders it an unremarkable finish...