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This year's Crimson representatives did not just participate; they excelled. In the collegiate men's division, Harvard sophomore Bill Cooper reeled in Northeastern oarsman Craig Wigginton over the last 500m of the race, and won the prized hammer. Awarded in recognition of the strength required to beat an ergometer into submission, and not in the pejorative sense in which the term would be applied on the water, this hardened-steel trophy epitomizes the deadly frivolity of the event. Four other Crimson rowers competed in the final...
...Massachusetts Mayors Association, led by Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn, voted to fight the local aid cut, propose alternative cost-cutting options, and form a committee to hammer out a final solution with Gov. William F. Weld '66, the Boston Globe reported last week...
...others are not nearly so tame. One student, who spoke under the twin conditions of absolute anonymity and the gift of a large hammer, acknowledged over lunch that he pounds posters into the walls with as many staplers as he can find. "You'll never get me to believe that Bok uses poster gum in his office," he said. "The whole thing is a big joke the maintenance staff lays on us, year after year. Well, I'll show them...
Marc E. Warner's editorial "Lies, Lies Baby" (January 7) misses the point completely with respect to musical "borrowing" of the type exhibited by M.C. Hammer, Vanilla Ice, Tone-Loc and other performers (mostly, though not exclusively, rappers). An injustice is not done to the public when these performers sample a riff or fill--rather, the injustice is done to the original artist. Thus, Vanilla Ice's stories about his ghetto youth are almost comical, while his blatantly false claims to writing the bass line to "Ice, Ice Baby" are chilling (his line differs by one half beat from...
...Hammer can pretape his shows, and if the audience wants to see them that's fine. But if he samples the bass line to "Superfreak" by Rick James and makes millions from another artist's work while giving James no credit whatsoever, that constitutes plagiarism. Anyone who has heard both "Jamie's Crying" by Van Halen and "Wild Thing" by Tone-Loc can easily see that Tone-Loc in the most obvious sense of the word stole the guitar riff and drum beat (Van Halen, understandably, sued...