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...away from a suggestion that it monitor regional human- rights abuses, along with any notion that it should move toward trade-bloc status. The group even rejected a change in its awkward name -- Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans calls it "four adjectives in search of a noun" -- rather than label itself a "community." Reason: the term suggests the kind of integration that Asian nations say they want to avoid. And besides, said Hong Kong Financial Secretary Hamish Macleod, "People are a little wary of possibly being dominated by the U.S. I think the majority view...
Harvard Coach Ronn Tomassoni's put the "darkhorse" label on Colgate in the preseason, and so far Coach Don Vaughn's scrappy Red Raiders have come through on that call. Slumping to an 0-3 start against the good (Boston University), the bad (UMass Lowell) and the ugly (Merrimack) of Hockey East, Colgate has rebounded with four straight in-conference wins to put it atop the ECAC with St. Lawrence and Harvard with eight points...
Post-'50s chic, however, tends to fall under the "recycled," not the "vintage," label. Youth countercultures during the last ten years have created a new market for used clothing, and stores that provide the crucial accoutrements for their wardrobes have flourished. The 1970's revival, the punk style of the eighties, and the recent Seattle 'grunge' look have combined to move used clothing out of small, intimate boutiques and into opera- tions of a warehouse scale...
...Jazz is about exploring," and that this element must be preserved. Theory and form should take a backseat to creativity, explained Fox, and he offered his paraphrase of Stravinsky as evidence: "Stravinsky said, `I like this chord...I dig this.'" Fox added, "You don't have to have a label on it to make it legitimate...
Over the years, Bad Religion has converted many early detractors into fans. BR has developed a substantial cult following, started its own record label and even collaborated with Noam Chomskyon an anti-Gulf War single. The Bad Religion soundis built on the sort of outrageously fast,aggressive and repetitive drum work associatedwith the early '80s Washington DC hardcore scene.The music of Bad Religion also owes a substantialdebt to, of all things, Klezmer. Klezmer wasinvented in Eastern Europe and has been kept aliveby Yiddish radio programs, bands who play barmitzvahs, and increasingly, by avant-garde jazzperformers. At its best, Bad Religion...