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...actually rap. A verse that outshines most of “808s and Heartbreak,” alongside the nasal voice of Santogold, cuts the sweetness of Lykke Li in a deceptively catchy hook: “So knock me out and shoot me down / With mics in hand, we’ll stand against the test of time.” They rhyme with a confidence that tames the complicated electronic melody.Santogold returns later on the track “Whatchadoin?” with close friend M.I.A., as well as rapper Spank Rock and Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist...
...provide children with “rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptops with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning.” The machines—called “XOs”—run without electricity and rely on hand cranks for power. Since its beginning, OLPC has distributed about 500,000 XOs in 31 countries. Even better, for $399, a consumer can simultaneously purchase an XO and donate one. OLPC also receives major ad time from worldwide corporations like News Corp, CBS, and Time Warner...
This feeling of having the upper hand was not with the Crimson at the beginning of the season. Just over a month ago, with the regular season drawing towards its end, Harvard had a sub-.500 record, and the vision of winning the ECAC tournament seemed well out of reach...
...case Kennedy, who is battling brain cancer, can't participate, has said he expects to see legislation introduced by Memorial Day. Kennedy monitors the progress by telephone from home. Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus, who has called health-care reform his top priority this year and is working hand-in-hand with Kennedy - Baucus' staff has often been in the room when stimulus negotiations allowed them the time - has said that he expects to hold hearings in the spring. By all accounts, the bill will go through the usual committee process in an effort to draw as much bipartisan...
...days, however, even that hard-line Fatah stance is no longer enough for most Palestinians here. High-ranking officials of Abbas' own party fear that he will trade away their right of return to what is now Israel. "Yassir Arafat went into negotiations with the olive branch in one hand and a weapon in the other hand," says one Beirut Fatah commander. "But all Mahmoud Abbas does is negotiate. He gets nothing, but he keeps negotiating. Palestinians believe in military operations because they want to go back to Palestine. They don't want to negotiate." (Read "After Israel's Election...