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...times have since changed: The art of mic-slaying has been driven underground by plastic gun-toting, golden-toothed infidels draped in gloss and glitter. The horrorcore style has become as clichéd as the old kung fu movies from which it was spawned. Gone is the grimy street noir of Wu-Tang Forever; on Iron Flag, we instead have more party jams (“Soul Power”), gangsta crooning (“Back in the Game”) and traditional boom-bap (the DJ Premier-esque “Rules”). It?...
...they come to us. When national newspapers look for comment on a Harvard issue, they come to us. When administrators want to leak a piece of news, they come to us. The Gazette is also a paper of record, but like the defunct Pravda it emulates, it tends to gloss over important controversies in favor of feel-good, fund-raising stories. Understandable, but not always credible...
...NORTHERN IRELAND I.R.A. Disarms The Irish Republican Army rescued Northern Ireland?s battered peace process by announcing that it was putting some of its store of arms "beyond use." The move enabled Gerry Adams, leader of the I.R.A.?s political wing, Sinn Fein, to gloss over an admission that a Sinn Fein...
...first recruiting information session, OCS officials informed a somber senior crowd the job market is the bleakest they have seen in the past sixteen years. Even recruiters do not gloss over the fact that this will be a fiercely competitive year. OCS’s Judy Murray believes Harvard to be in a less precarious situation than most. At least companies are still knocking at the door, although they have less to offer and less with which to entice seniors. This is discouraging, but Peng remains confident that her years of hard work will...
...children, yet teens seem to live in another world--one with nonstop Internet access and encyclopedic knowledge of song lyrics. When teens start dating, they lurch back and forth between their private agonies and joys, and mask their problems and heartaches with arguments about learner's permits and lip gloss. We parents wait up nights and cross our fingers, hoping our kids will make it to adulthood unscathed. Unfortunately, many of them...