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...crank up the music and turn down the lights?” They couldn’t turn down the lights, but they did turn up the music, but they didn’t have the kind of music we were talking about. It was just like the Greek folk music. It turned out being kind of cool because a lot of the dining hall staff started doing Greek folk dance and holding hands, so a bunch of athletes were standing in a circle around them clapping. It kind of turned into a dance party anyways, just not the kind...

Author: By J. PATRICK Coyne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Silver Medal Story | 10/7/2004 | See Source »

Dylan, who turned 63 in May, rose to prominence in the early 1960s for his poetic protest songs, such as “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “The Times They Are A-Changin,” and distinctive nasal voice and folk guitar strumming...

Author: By Katharine A. Kaplan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dylan To Sing In Campus Show | 10/7/2004 | See Source »

...Western world, are not sufficiently educated or well versed in using sophisticated tools have managed to outsmart the world's best intelligence networks and governments. These clerics have upped the ante and cleverly spawned the cancer of hatred in the thoughts of the innocent young and the gullible common folk in Muslim countries around the globe. It is a psychological game that President George W. Bush has not yet grasped. The West needs to understand the psyche of the manipulators and the victims in Islamic countries. Preaching democracy is not sufficient. It is time to truly deliver democracy while fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 10/5/2004 | See Source »

...tribes assemble in a single space, but there is no common ground for them and they have no common values. Nor is there any kind of organizing intelligence to make sense or order of the masses. The pace of the village is that of a bullock cart, or a folk song; the rhythm of the city is that of an MTV video, broken up, superaccelerated, posthuman. If it takes a village to raise a child, as Hillary Clinton has said, it takes a city to corrupt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City as Hope and Horror | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

...Western world, are not sufficiently educated or well versed in using sophisticated tools have managed to outsmart the world's best intelligence networks and governments. These clerics have upped the ante and cleverly spawned the cancer of hatred in the thoughts of the innocent young and the gullible common folk in Muslim countries around the globe. It is a psychological game that President George W. Bush has not yet grasped. The West needs to understand the psyches of the manipulators and the victims in Islamic countries. Preaching democracy is not sufficient. It is time to truly deliver democracy while fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

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