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...does the Arcade Fire insist on making such insipid music videos? The first offender was “Rebellion (Lies).” Not an outright failure, but undeniably a clip starved for imagination. There was probably no budget, so you forgive them, even though the only thing in the whole video keeping your attention is the fuzzy glow between Richard Parry’s drum and his drumstick, and even that can’t get you through the unintentionally humorous blanket-shaking scene. A few months later, “Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)”: basically...
...have all these opportunites,” sophomore Joseph Bechtold says. “It’s time to help people that need help.” Not only does the team enjoy making a difference in the lives of others. Teammates insist the volunteer work improves the performance of the team. “It brings us closer,” Ziemnik says. “It is a good way to bring the team together. The more time we spend, the more I get to know the guys on the team.” Working with...
...activist group appears to be taking tougher stances than its predecessor. For the most part, SLAM’s demands far exceed the terms to which the University agreed in 2001.As Harvard’s janitors renegotiate their contract with the University, SLAM’s leaders insist that Harvard should pay its janitors at least $20 per hour plus benefits, increase the proportion of janitors offered full-time employment at the University, and improve benefits for subcontracted workers, according to Gould-Wartofsky, who is also a Crimson editor.A wage of $10.25 per hour when the sit-in began...
...Bush has plenty of time to resurrect himself; in fact, he will probably survive several boom-and-bust cycles before Jan. 20, 2009, rolls around. The ways of presidential resurrection are many. We've seen sagging Presidents revive their fortunes in a trice. In 1995 Bill Clinton had to insist that he was "still relevant" in a city that had fallen in love with Newt Gingrich's Republican revolution. But a few days later, he was a hero again after his eloquent handling of the Oklahoma City tragedy. George W. Bush's own presidency was limping along until...
...undocumented immigrants from Mexico, are increasingly ditching the minimum-wage, back-breaking temporary work offered in agriculture for more lucrative construction jobs, which pay from $11 to $15 an hour. An estimated 40% of the region's illegal agricultural workers have already migrated to the construction industry. The growers insist that their margins on produce are too small to offer higher wages, a claim that unions are challenging...