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Dominique D. Winters, a third-year student at the Law School, spent last summer working at the Washington, D.C. public defender’s office, having foresaken more profitable firm jobs in order to improve what she says is a deeply flawed criminal justice system...

Author: By Elias J. Groll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Law Students Disappointed but Understanding of Public Service Fund Cuts | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

...since that fateful car crash, and he got nanoimplants (or whatever) in the video for “Stronger.” And yeah, each track on his bold new effort, “808s and Heartbreaks,” gets the Auto-Tune treatment: he’s foresaken rap, and his questionable singing chops are lazer-bevelled into serviceable shape by software. But take a closer look at this reinvention of an album—Kanye as solely-strings-and-synths balladeer?—and he’s still human. On second single...

Author: By Jake G. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kanye West | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...Interludes, a collection of all of Berkey's interludes from the first four albums--a possible reluctance to continue along the same line. This, however, would not explain the additional lack of organ Tocattas which started off their last two albums. In pursuit of what, has Mannheim Steamroller foresaken these trademarks? They seem at first to be "playing if safe," taking the themes which everyone liked from their previous albums to make a new one, but have they merely forgotten some obvious favorites...

Author: By Martin Kalz, | Title: Baroque Rock | 3/2/1984 | See Source »

...racing, the only other regulated high speed animal racing sport (in the matter of speed, both horse and dog put homo sapien to shame) jockeys have been foresaken in the 20th century for the mechanical rabbit. Though the change originally occurred because man had become too large to ride dogs, the jockey's steel and cotton replacement has proved more than sufficient, and in many ways beneficial. Has one ever heard of a mechanical rabbit strike...

Author: By Mack A. Kniphe and Robert Ullmann, S | Title: All Joking Aside, Is the Jockey Really Necessary? | 5/24/1977 | See Source »

...Tiant has not foresaken his fastball, which he can spin to the left and the right, causing the ball to break in or out. Fernandez, who has been catching Tiant's pitches everyday for the past two weeks and has helped him train for the past few years, says that the changes in his pitches have made El Tiante's fastball faster than it has ever been...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: Marc My Words | 3/6/1976 | See Source »

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