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Part two, “The Landlord’s Daughter,” explodes to a mad, kaleidoscopic organ climax as the stranded sailors rape an islander (“I’ll take no gold, miss / I’ll take no silver / I’ll take your sweet lips”). Then the song flows into “You’ll Not Feel the Drowning,” a soft, dark acoustic denouement...

Author: By Piotr C. Brzezinski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CD of the Week: The Decemberists, "The Crane Wife" | 10/12/2006 | See Source »

...Americans, Washington is a giant cesspool. It's no wonder almost half of Americans (47%) now agree with the statement "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore." It's us (the people) versus them (the politicians), and it doesn't matter what primary color you wear. Just as in the closing scene of George Orwell's Animal Farm, even when you look closely, you can't tell the difference between the animals and the people anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foley: The Final Straw | 10/7/2006 | See Source »

...norm, screaming is assumed appropriate, and broken bottles signify accomplishment rather than an accident. Definitively immoderate and possibly injurious, raging is an angry exertion, one neither easy on the lungs nor the liver. But the questions remain: Why did having fun become so furious? And what are we so mad at?It could just be the alcohol. Rage denotes drink and drinking portends problems. Doesn’t being under the influence basically beget a brawl? We don’t drink because we’re angry, the logic goes, we’re angry because we drink...

Author: By Victoria Ilyinsky, | Title: “Love to Hatred Turned?” | 10/2/2006 | See Source »

...could be you!). And finally, there are the naïve freshmen who think the UC is important. As a somewhat jaded member of category three, I take pity on those poor souls in category four. This is my second annual attempt to help them make sense of the mad dash that is the UC elections. The UC has two primary functions: divvying up money for student groups and lobbying the administration for improvements in student life. To do this, the UC has two committees: the Finance Committee (FiCom) and the Student Affairs Committee (SAC). Each house...

Author: By Adam M. Guren, | Title: The Unofficial Guide | 10/2/2006 | See Source »

...began to gag in my throat. Although other viewers of this film may find their laughter dying earlier, possibly when a home-schooled child is being instructed the earth is just 6,000 years old and that its warming is, like evolution, a myth perpetrated on the faithful by mad science. Or when Harry Potter and the gang at Hogwarts are talked about as the devil's disciple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Portrait of Desecrated Childhood | 9/29/2006 | See Source »

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