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David Byrne and Norman Cook, a.k.a. Fatboy Slim, are an odd couple to begin with: one an ex-Talking Head and lateral-thinking pop singer, the other a star club DJ and dance-music producer. So the news that the two were collaborating on a disco musical about the life of Imelda Marcos, the widow of Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos, was something of a head-scratcher. Peculiarity, though, is Byrne's specialty, and the recorded version of Here Lies Love is a winning twist on the "album musical" tradition. Twenty-two different singers (including the likes of Tori Amos...
...Scott C. Smider '01, general manager of the Queen’s Head Pub and a freshman proctor in Wigg G, would disagree. On April 19, when Smider reaches the starting line for the world-famous Boston Marathon, he will already have completed three marathons. At that point, for Smider, it will be 78.6 consecutive miles down...
...anyone suggest you were just letting your husband walk all over you? Some. But my response to that is, What's more powerful than going by instinct? Being in denial is having your head in the sand. Having your head in the moment is freedom...
...like when Tea Party protesters hurled racial epithets against civil-rights legend Representative John Lewis, spat at other African-American members and called Representative Barney Frank, one of a handful of openly gay Congressmen, a "f_____." "Members have had death threats," read a fundraising missive from Mitch Stewart, the head of Organizing for America, an offshoot of President Obama's campaign website. "Democratic offices have been vandalized. Please chip in $5 or more to defend health reform - and those in Congress who fought to make it possible." Though both parties saw significant fundraising bumps from the passage of the bill...
...telephone conversation, according to a statement placed on the Russian government's website. Putin's spokesman later told the Interfax news agency that Russia had recognized the legitimacy of the new leadership. "It is important to note that Vladimir Putin was speaking to Otunbayeva in her capacity as the head of the interim government," the spokesman said...