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...second consecutive high-scoring game between the two teams. Last season, the Crimson topped the Huskies, 16-13, in the squad’s final game of the 2009 season...
...professional sports, not surprisingly, the list is pretty small. In fact, it’s pretty much limited to two players: the NBA’s LeBron James and MLB’s Joe Mauer. Both were MVPs of their respective leagues last season. Both are straight out of high school, phenoms who skipped college to go straight to the pros—though both had the talent to play Division I football. (The only athlete to ever be named USA Today’s Player of the Year in two sports, Mauer turned down an offer from Florida State...
...orchestral flourishes, but it is nonetheless a consummate pop song—and a great one. From the opening, cheerfully syncopated vocal samples through the disconcertingly straightforward verse-chorus-verse structure, “Go Do” takes the listener on a compressed journey through the emotional high points of a seven- or eight-minute Sigur Rós track. It leaves out the gloom and heartache, however, instead crooning, “We should always know that we can do anything / Go do, you’ll know...
...Lilikoi” features fluttering flutes and pounding snare drums which would feel perfectly at home in a symphony, and yet it feels far more down-to-earth than such instrumentals would suggest. The vocals and percussion, which are mixed unusually high throughout the record, dominate Muhly’s complex arrangement and contribute significantly to that unpretentious quality. “Go” is an album which is easy to appreciate on first listen, but its immediacy never detracts from the emotional rollercoaster Jónsi is so adept at creating...
...systems that were put in place first by the Nazis and then by the Stasi, East Germany's secret police. Under the German constitution, the state now has a special responsibility to protect the privacy of its citizens. Germans' privacy rights have been strengthened even further by some recent high-profile court rulings. In March, for example, the constitutional court overturned a law that allowed authorities to keep data on phone calls and e-mails for six months to help fight terrorism and crime. The court said the storage of data could create a "threatening feeling of being under observation...