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...while making no real impact. This pattern is established on the first track, “Dimmer,” which opens with soft, driving bass and percussion before moving into a self-deprecating account of Rudder’s insecurities. All of it—the theme, the frail and vulnerable vocals, the clean production and the reliance on pop form—play to expectations. “I would pick the darkest horse / that’s the horse I’d ride,” he sings. Would an indie pop frontman pick any other...

Author: By Keshava D. Guha, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bishop Allen | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

...She’s very strong, very articulate, focused,” said audience member Dorothy S. Altman ’52 of Ginsburg. “She’s not frail...

Author: By Danielle J. Kolin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Justice Speaks on Gender | 3/13/2009 | See Source »

...Monday afternoon, a military flight touched down at an airbase on the outskirts of London. A frail man disembarked for an undisclosed location. This was the quiet homecoming of Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian refugee and British resident, who has finally been released after more than four years in Guantánamo Bay. "I have been through an experience that I never thought to encounter in my darkest nightmares," said Mohamed in a statement, read out by his British lawyer Clive Stafford Smith at a hastily arranged press conference. (See pictures from inside Guantánamo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surviving Guantánamo: A Prisoner's Tale | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...marriage is scheduled to take place on Sunday at the kind of snooty country-house hotel that is usually expert at making Britons of Goody's class feel out of place. At the end of her life, though, Goody, bald and frail, has most definitely arrived. Shetty confided in her blog that a "shoot in Kuala Lampur" (sic) prevents her attendance at the ceremony, but homegrown celebrities are expected to turn out in force to honor Goody, including the megasuccessful pop group Girls Aloud, originally brought together by a TV talent show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jade Goody's Reality: A TV Star's Very Public Dying | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

...classes and wrote for The Crimson. He concentrated on his social life, playing junior varsity football and gaining entrance to the Spee Club and the Hasty Pudding Club. His swim coach at Harvard would call him “a fine kid, frail and not too strong, but always giving it everything he had,” perhaps foreshadowing John’s heroic rescue during World War II.During John’s sophomore year, his father was appointed Ambassador to Great Britain. John used his father’s connections to travel abroad in the summer of 1937, visiting...

Author: By Mark J. Chiusano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: When They Were Young | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

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