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Folk music is all over the place these days. There's Beck with his hip-hop folk, Ani DiFranco with her punk-folk, and Jewel with her sexy, wet-lipped pop-folk. Relative to that lot, the veteran duo Indigo Girls and newcomer Laura Love sound almost like folk traditionalists...
...minutes of the second half. Yale (11-3, 4-2 Ivy) had scored the last four goals of the first half to take a 6-3 lead at the break, but Harvard (4-8, 1-5) stormed back to tie the score at eight with a goal from sophomore Laura Dahmen with 14:02 left...
...decision on the California ballot raised the profile of equal opportunity issues," said Laura Freid, executive vice president for external affairs at Brown University. "I think it was a wake-up call for universities across the country to examine them and to express their support for continued attention to diversity in university admissions...
...Laura Ingraham, the CBS and MSNBC analyst, is as hard as a diamond. Her killer views against gays, feminists, gun-control advocates and welfare stand out even in that booming segment of the instant-pundit industry: right-wing women commentators. That's why her recent essay in the Washington Post apologizing for her rabid intolerance of gays dropped like a bombshell. Notorious in her student days for vilifying "sodomites" in the Dartmouth Review--and for sending a reporter to tape a Gay Students Association meeting, then naming names--she wrote that she changed her views after witnessing "the dignity, fidelity...
...DIED. LAURA NYRO, 49, intense and lyrical singer-songwriter whose free-form musical emotionalism captured for many the passions of the 1960s and 1970s; of ovarian cancer; in Danbury, Connecticut. Her unique blend of folk, soul, gospel and Broadway influenced many artists, some of whom turned her tunes into hits. A brief playlist: Wedding Bell Blues (Fifth Dimension), And When I Die (Blood, Sweat and Tears) and Stoney End (Barbra Streisand...