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...model for, as the box reads, “those BOGGLE lovers who can’t stop connecting letters to spell words and collect more points.” True! In the space of three minutes, one must find words no less than four letters in length. Proper nouns are not allowed and the same letter cube can be used only once per word. A quick tutorial for clarification...
...says Richard Butler, head of the inspection team ousted in 1998, the real dirt will ultimately be mined by comparing the new documents with the million pages on file at the U.N. and teasing out inconsistencies in the new inventory. The length of the declaration is no doubt intentional, Butler tells Time. "Dumping a truckload of material is part of the process of obfuscation," he says. It is the U.N.'s responsibility to assess Iraq's report. Officials there said they would not even share the declaration with Security Council members until they had purged any sections that serve...
...Donnas’ fifth full-length effort, Spend the Night, raises a question: just how much more of the band’s jailbait, piss-and-estrogen rock can one palate? The algorithm for their records has always been fairly obvious, drawing its vivacity from the Beach Boys, melody from the Ramones and potency from Bikini Kill. But even the most rawking of formulas will eventually become tiresome as they keep cranking out the same three-minute, guitar-reliant anthems. The Donnas may need to do some tweaking, and God forbid, some maturing, as the years...
Matmos kicked off the first of three workshops, attended by a handful of Harvard students, with a lecture on the history of musique concrete, the avant-garde movement that used spliced tape loops to restructure found sounds into full-length compositions. “I wanted some way to respond to the class with sound, but you can only go so far without it becoming a bit gimmicky,” Daniel said. The talk was bolstered by listening to the duo’s favorite recordings, which ranged from former Cabaret Voltaire member Chris Watson’s work...
Chopra: I realize that 99.9 percent of people define a square as a shape with four sides of equal length. Around here, though, any time there is an end of a street and a curb, you can have a square. To make it more square-ish, I think I would allow food vendors on the street...