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With Life Won't Wait destined to accumulate praise and a broader listenership for Rancid, the choice to open the album with unnecessarily self-aggrandizing lyrics was a poor one. To make such a singular hampering flaw on a record is not horrible, but to make it intentionally conspicuous is a significant misjudgment. Notable on the first track, "Intro," the band is too aware of its own destiny for personal success and public appreciation; the group members mistakenly assume that moral suasion should be flaunted outright instead of embracing the more preferable latent variety conveyed through experiences and opinions...
With that minuscule but unavoidable flaw out of the way, Rancid begins unleashing the usual all-out aural assault with the album's first single, "Bloodclot." Several "hey-ho's" and "nah-nah's" later, with the melodies acting as some sort of immediately infectious drug and the muscle-bound punk cowboy aesthetic getting full play, the stage is set for the rest of the record to branch out. "Bloodclot" is a successful segue from "Wolves" to the rest of the new album...
There was a fundamental flaw in your selection process. By beginning your search for the 100 with neat categories and subcategories, you oversimplified a complicated century and avoided the most interesting debates. For example, by allowing room for only one writer and one visual artist, you begged the questions, Are writers and artists equally influential? Is a TV host as important? Could there be a second writer whose influence outweighs, say, Bart Simpson, your choice as cartoon character? You effortlessly sidestepped these questions. And so again an interesting idea is dumbed down for an impatient society. PETER MARTINO Roxbury, Conn...
...seemed to be shaking Harvard's ivory tower, the near 80 percent yield for the class of 2002 seemed to put the issue to rest. With a record-high yield, the argument seems to go, our financial aid policy does not need to change. But there is a fundamental flaw to this argument. Students who fall into the second and especially the third financial aid categories may simply decide, like my friends, that the cost of a Harvard education outweighs its benefits and may not even apply. However, while the middle and working class applicants may drop, the upper-class...
Although Fine and Weis are careful to point out the flaws of scapegoating, they too jump on the blame band wagon. Ostensibly, a cause for this economic hardship is required in their analysis; they attribute it as "demonic" legislation passed by congress. But an egregious analytical flaw creeps in. The authors never explicitly detail the legislation or explore how it splintered the inner city. As a result, it becomes unsatisfying to read hundreds of pages of inner city problems and receive only casual reference to what caused them...