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...poetry itself was great. The first piece, “Straighten It Out” set the scene with a sly, sideways look at hair and asserting one’s identity, and from there it ran the whole gamut from rambling personal stories, an a cappella song, some high-school self-revelation and some quite phenomenally good spoken word style poetry. High-paced, sometimes a little too much, the poetry could make reference to Neo of The Matrix and Jesus in the same breath. One freshman stepped up to the mic and echoed what a lot of people seemed...
...asks Sam Seaborn (Rob Lowe), "What do you call a society that has to just live every day with the idea that the pizza place you're eating in can just blow up without any warning?" It's a locution that's never dribbled from the mouth of any high-school girl not formed in the mind of Aaron Sorkin, but it does allow Sam to retort - c'mon, you know the words! - "Israel...
...music bounces around between pop (“Falling Away,” sounds like endearing high-school rock), country (the tobacco-chewing slide guitar on “A Treasure @ Silver Bank”) and the indie sound that made him famous. Stairs has a voice that is half American Damon Albarn and half John Frusciante—often lazy, never overbearing, which means that his voice becomes just another instrument. The lyrics are either so nonsensical or sufficiently obscure that it’s tricky to tell the difference between the two: “Driving the whalebones...
...every day that a California software engineer gets to grill a gathering of masked Zapatista rebels about their method of trash collection. That an Iowa State professor can draw them out about the "dreams and hopes" of their children. That a New Jersey high-school teacher can query them on how they cope with paramilitary threats, or that a Seattle grant writer can talk to them about women in combat...
...Cieszyn, Poland. DIED. KOREY STRINGER, 27, Minnesota Vikings football player who collapsed during training; from heatstroke, in Mankato, Minnesota. The lineman was a first-round draft pick and famously generous. When he was selected for the Pro Bowl, Stringer signed over his check to buy equipment for his high-school team. DIED. BERTIE FELSTEAD, 106, last known surviving member of the World War I British battalion that left the trenches in northern France on Christmas Day, 1915, to play soccer with German soldiers in a spontaneous truce; in Gloucester, U.K. The enemies also chatted and shared cigarettes before a British...