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Harvard is a great place to nourish a guilty pleasure. It’s real easy: just lie to your roommate, something innocuous, like “I’m going to study in Lamont.” Then disappear for six hours of Magic: The Gathering or “Rock of Love with Bret Michaels,” shuffle back to your room bleary-eyed, and he or she will think nothing of it. What’s more, we assume that all our peers are constantly devoting themselves to the things we ourselves ought...
Murakami's Magic I was thrilled to see the article on Haruki Murakami [Sept. 17]. As a student of literature, I am an avid reader, but I have never come across a writer as engrossing as Murakami. His style varies from descriptions of everyday events, such as cooking spaghetti, to intellectual discussions with total strangers to heart-stopping, beyond-reality experiences. His images are at times so vivid and meticulously detailed that reading them is like watching a movie. When I started reading A Wild Sheep Chase, I made a pencil dot in the margin next to every memorable phrase...
...want a thousand guitars / I want pounding drums,” sings Bruce Springsteen on his new album “Magic,” echoing the sentiments of fans dissatisfied with his recent studio releases. Springsteen hasn’t released a straight-ahead rock album since 2002’s “The Rising,” making folkier albums like “We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions” and “Devils & Dust” instead. Despite their critical success, it’s impossible not to yearn for what The Boss...
...DeLaughter, sharing the latter’s unabashed enthusiasm and strange habit of lengthening his vowels. The track’s chaotic arrangement and nonsensical lyrics introduce the jovial insanity that permeates the entire album. “Gown” rolls seamlessly into “Magic Vs. Midas,” which starts out subdued and slowly builds upward into tenser and more earnest territory. Like “Magic,” “Up on Your Leopard, Upon the End of Your Feral Days” is not what it initially seems: what begins...
...likely than mothers to modify their language when speaking to their children, thus challenging their kids to expand vocabulary and cognitive skills. Fathers also tend to enforce rules more strictly and systematically in reaction to children's wrongdoing, according to educational psychologist Carol Gilligan. "Having a father isn't magic," says Armin Brott, author of seven books about fatherhood, "but it really does make a difference for the kids...