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...intensity of a scene set to “Strawberry Fields Forever.” The filming happened to fall on the 25th anniversary of John Lennon’s death. “Julie just came up to me, and we spoke about John Lennon at length,” he recalled. “And then she said, ‘Just go in with him in your heart, in your soul, in your mind. We’re just gonna put the song on a loop, and you’re just gonna keep singing, and we?...
...tomorrow on a bill that aims to reduce textbook prices across the state. The legislation, House Bill 1200—known as the Affordable Textbooks Bill—would require publishers selling textbooks to universities to disclose wholesale prices, a list of all of their products, and an estimated length of time that they expect to keep the product on the market. In addition, the bill would require bundled books to be made available individually. “It’s good, because it definitely brings the market closer to a perfect economy,” said Chaz...
...expands on it, pushing the conventions of pop music to their outer limits. In large part, that achievement comes because the band never yokes their primal instincts, choosing raw emotive power over restraint in their songs. That’s led to a disparate discography, consisting of eight full-length discs in seven years. As soon as an album’s done, a new batch of songs suddenly crops up, sui generis. Wandering souls can’t sit still, and so the band never encounters their own boundaries because such boundaries don’t exist...
...formal American politics. This is not to say, however, that Asian Americans are inherently apathetic about legitimate processes of elections and the law. On the contrary, one 2005 study conducted at Indiana University blames low voting statistics on factors like immigrant status (clearly, non-citizens cannot vote) and length of residency in the United States (as a proxy for acculturation); thus, the implication is that Asian participation in electoral politics will change as the structural status of the highly migrant demographic also changes...
...said for her prose. Bok: 311 words Last year, then-Interim President Derek C. Bok wrote to the community announcing the retirement of Sidney Verba, Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the Harvard University Library. A brief 311-word note, Bok’s letter is almost 1/6 the length of Faust’s and perhaps 6 times more readable. Summers: 465 words In a time before the infamous women-in-science remarks, former President Lawrence H. Summers solicited thoughts on a new provost to replace then-Provost Harvey Fineberg. Unlike the outcry following his speech at the National...