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...Whether deliberate or no, the generic title of this Boston-based quartet's third album (recorded at Fort Apache studios here in Cambridge) reflects their music. None of the melding of musical styles so popular in modern rock occurs here: straight-up three-chord rock is the name of the game. When done well, as in the tight, focused first single, "Telescope," the standard guitar-bass-drum combination still retains the feel of energy unleashed. Singer Will Claflin also acquits himself well, with a hard-edged voice and decent enunciation, something all too often forgotten in the genre...
...Answer: The Foz is the man. Sort of. The Foz is Michael E. Fosnaugh e01, an junior concentrating in ec from Fort Wayne, Indiana. He sports A&F and a crew cut, and lives in a stereotypically unkempt, unvacuumed and generally dirty pad. Yes, he acquired the name iThe Fozi through some kind of sports activity-freshman preseason football camp. Yes, he is looking for an iattractive girl...whois funny and can have a good time.i Even his weekends tend to fall on the terribly ordinary side: according to The Foz, iI hang out in my room with my roommates...
...undergoing a 90-day education program aimed at rooting out homophobic harassment. Each of the armed services is slated to draw up and conduct similar training. Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen deemed the sensitivity sessions necessary last July, when a soldier clubbed Private Barry Winchell to death in Fort Campbell, Ky., after extensively baiting Winchell about his homosexuality. It was not until Feb. 1, however, that Cohen explicitly instructed everyone in the armed services to undergo the training. Cohen has also requested a detailed report to gauge animus against gays in the military from the Department of Defense...
...hunger. Last December, after the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that Texas has the second worst hunger problem, with 1 million people going hungry each day, he dismissed it out of hand. "I saw the report that children in Texas are going hungry," he told a reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "Where? I want to know the facts. I would like for the Department of Agriculture to show us who. Where are they...
...Over the years there have been from time to time artists' centers. Back in the early '70s there was a huge building across from South Station that was filled with artists, and now Fort Point, which is getting dislodged. It's the same old story: artists move into these spaces, and then there's development...