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...Problems” producer Rick Rubin to lay the beats down on his hip-hop records. DJ Spooky, a Bowdoin graduate with a double major in French and philosophy, who performed at Sanders Theatre in March, weaves webs of aural, visual, and textual references ranging from Derrida to De La Soul...
...mainstream and underground rap that Kanye West claims to have transcended seem to have been greatly exaggerated. Hip-hop legends like Wu-Tang Clan, Rakim, Nas and Notorious B.I.G. have been weaving abstract rhymes into their oeuvres for years (albeit less pretentiously), along with left-field heroes like De La Soul, 3rd Bass and the Native Tongues Posse (Q-Tip’s nickname is even “the Abstract?...
...la Maison ($12) is the adult version of the quintessential children’s meal. The bratwurst is served on a grilled baguette and topped with melted cheese. Eating it is a messy task, but a delicious one—the “hot dog” is juicy and flavorful, especially with a little whole-grain mustard on top. Rosemary potato chips are large and crispy, although the rosemary is mostly overpowered by the salt...
This ideological single-mindedness has much in common with Pope Benedict’s view that there is only one way to salvation, and it is certainly not achieved by cruising the virtual streets of LA as Beelzebub himself. With this I can see a wondrous combination of Christian initiatives, all for the electronic glory of Christ. Even the binary nature of computer programming is analogous to the Church’s Good vs. Evil dichotomy. With Vatican funding and American marketing and development, the Christian video game market would be set to explode. The collaborations could be momentous...
After months of delays and an unheralded initial report, the General Education Committee of the Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR) is heading back to the drawing board. There are many models they could use—a completely free curriculum like Brown, a great books program à la Columbia, or a system of several large divisions from which students must sample courses like at Yale. But Harvard is not a clone of any other institution and should not adopt some other school’s system. Instead of looking outward, the committee should look at which courses work best...