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...quite similar. The lack of variation within “Sleep Through the Static” does create a coherent sound, but risks boring the listener. Large differences between track lengths (“While We Wait” is only one and a half minutes, while others hover between two and five minutes) do create a feeling of spontaneity, but this alone is not enough to make his sixth studio album stand out from the rest of the corpus. —Reviewer Eric M. Sefton can be reached at esefton@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Eric M. Sefton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jack Johnson | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

...They barely eked it out—just one tiebreak was the difference.”A win against either the Wildcats or Virginia would have vaulted Harvard even further up the national rankings, but with the losses, the Crimson’s ranking is likely to hover around 50. VIRGINIA 6, HARVARD 1Harvard found out quickly it’s never easy to play the No. 1 team in the nation against a dominant Cavalier team.“I think we were a little bit on our heels,” Fish said. “They broke...

Author: By Jake I. Fisher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson No Match for Ranked Competition | 2/11/2008 | See Source »

...solution rests with Israel. Chris Gunness, a spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which feeds as many as 850,000 impoverished Gazans, says, "A few holes in the wall don't relieve Israel of its obligations. We can't have a situation where Gaza continues to hover on the brink of catastrophe." Israel, for its part, continues to blame Hamas?and the constant threat of rocket attacks against Israeli civilians?for the blockade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Gaza | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

...even if it loses - most voter polls show it getting less than the 60% required to pass - Crist stands to remain popular. Despite the very real problems he's had with the tax and insurance efforts, his approval ratings still hover in the high 50s. Pundits agree that's largely because Crist is at least making the effort on issues that Floridians consider crucial to keeping the middle class viable in a state whose demographics make it an uncanny microcosm of the nation as a whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crist Revels in the Florida Spotlight | 1/28/2008 | See Source »

...same year. And according to anecdotal evidence from police investigators, the number of reported art thefts from churches is holding steady or, in many cases, rising. In France, for example, the OCBC has recorded a 62% drop in stolen-art reports since 2002 - yet every year, thefts from churches hover between 200 and 300. "If it continues at the current rate," says Lambert, "in 20 or 30 years, there won't be anything left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spirited Away: Art Thieves Target Europe's Churches | 1/10/2008 | See Source »

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