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...promise. It takes some doing to make an album darker than Funeral, but Win Butler, the band's leader--he's the singer too, but all members of Arcade Fire sing or scream whenever they want to--spends a lot of time cataloging his gloom. "Every spark of friendship and love/ Will die without a home," he yelps on Intervention, one of the happier tunes. Plenty of candidates for rock's next big voice mistook darkness for depth early on (listened to any '70s Springsteen lately?), and you get the sense Butler will outgrow it, since the band's melodies...
...only it were that easy for the rest of us. Saying no can be awkward, guilt inducing, nerve racking, embarrassing, even risky to friendship and career. "No may be the most powerful word in the language, but it's also potentially the most destructive, which is why it's hard to say," says William Ury, director of the Global Negotiation Project at Harvard University, who addresses that struggle in his new book, The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to Yes. Ury, a professional negotiator whose work has taken him to such conflict-ridden...
...folks who would wonder why I, a gay boy, would find these episodes funny. They might be appalled at my blockmates’ homophobia, and they might speculate that I pathetically accept their sensibilities, including their sick, hateful sense of humor as the price to pay for their friendship. Some of my friends and I—we all rigorously adhere to an ethic of cultural relativism—call these people, “The Bad People.” They are on par with people who make conversation during television shows, hold opinions about Undergraduate Council candidates...
...Harbec, who is already a member of the country’s U-22 team. Despite these differences, Chu and Harbec have found common ground in the realm of hockey. Their battles on the ice have created mutual admiration between the two—as well as a lasting friendship. “We compete really hard against each other,” Chu says. “But at the end of the day I think we can appreciate the challenge we pose for each other.” “To see them hug after the game...
...game featured an intriguing individual matchup between star centers Harbec and Chu, the top two scorers in the ECAC. The two have developed a strong friendship off the ice, and feed off of each other’s intensity when they play against each another...