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...Daysleeper" is reminiscent of "Try Not To Breathe" from Automatic For The People, and the entire album seems to lament lost love even in its most upbeat moments, just like in Automatic For The People. Stipe's upbeat chorus on "Walk Unafraid" challenges love with the words "I'll trip, fall, pick myself up and/walk unafraid/I'll be clumsy instead/hold my love me or leave me/high." Stipe even goes into obsessive love on "Hope" with lyrics like "At my most beautiful I count your eyelashes secretly...

Author: By Benjamin L. Kornell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Up and Away: R.E.M. Walks On | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

...sense that many others at the College share my sentiments. We have all heard students lament the fact that they hang out exclusively with their over-sized blocking groups and that they wait for hours on end to gain entrance to the Crimson Sports Bar and Grille only to see the same people that they saw there the weekend before (when they also waited for hours...

Author: By Alex Carter, | Title: Getting Up and Out of the Square | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...scans and rhymes with Polly Jean, and that an album whose title is a question must necessarily begin as a quest. After all, it is not the lover (who may, in fact, be imaginary) but the miles to be traveled that arrests Angelene's greatest attention. PJ Harvey expresses lament like no one's business, but like the harlots and hangers-on she portrays, she never gives...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wings of 'Desire': PJ Harvey Plays for Power | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

...deeply moved by Yuri Zarakhovich's "A Russian's Lament" [VIEWPOINT, Sept. 21], describing his country's inability to cope with freedom. The concept of freedom is so deeply ingrained in U.S. culture that it never occurs to us that other nations do not even know exactly what to embrace. It becomes all the more imperative for the West to teach these concepts to others, rather than aim for an economic coup in evolving nations. Our challenge is to elect leaders who are better than individual countries deserve--they must serve the world. KRIS GALLAGHER Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 12, 1998 | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...wake of three suicides within GSAS since 1997, student leaders ultimately lament that it seems to take tragedy to spur forward the fight for better advising...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Suicide Spurs GSAS, Chem. Department To Review Advising | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

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