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...Pilgrim; Disc Two offers almost as many remakes of Pixies songs recorded by Mr. Black just before the since-much-talked-about reunion. Disc One is, at most levels, what one might expect almost any demo tape to sound like: the pleasure here comes almost exclusively from the post-hoc knowledge of the songs’ evolution. The utterly bassless “I’ve Been Tired” and “Ed is Dead” are surprisingly intriguing, and “Nimrod’s Son?...
...Tishman and Diker professor of sociology and of Af-Am studies, and Marcyliena Morgan, an Af-Am associate professor, will leave Harvard at the end of the fall semester to take up tenured positions at Stanford University. Bobo and Morgan, who are married, decided to leave after an ad hoc committee chaired by Summers denied Morgan tenure this past summer...
...Waters, whom Bobo described in the e-mail as a “dear friend,” said Morgan had been under review for tenure and that this summer her case came before the final step of the long and exhaustive tenure process—an ad hoc committee chaired by Summers...
...failed state." The E.U.-U.S. relationship is also being tested over NATO involvement in Iraq. Even before the Iraq war, Europe's attention was divided between NATO and the effort to build the E.U.'s own security and defense identity. For its part, the Pentagon has preferred ad hoc coalitions in both Afghanistan and Iraq to enlisting NATO's help. Last week, a report by a group of independent defense experts called for the creation of a 15,000-strong E.U. security force that could be rapidly deployed. But Continental governments still seem more willing to commit troops to peacekeeping...
Part poet, part pol, Peggy Noonan was the Republican Party's go-to speechwriter for nearly a decade. Ronald Reagan turned to her to mark the 40th anniversary of D-day--"These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc"--and it was Noonan who helped the first George Bush find his voice in 1988. Her notion of a "kinder, gentler America" was picked up by Bush to soften the G.O.P.'s image after eight years of Reagan conservatism. Noonan then quit politics and went on to fame as a pundit and author...