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...Neon Bible” tracks tempt audiences into forgiving the album’s thematic and lyrical heavy-handedness. But their stage personae are similarly overwrought, and songs such as “Surf City Eastern Block” (which has Butler assuming an alter ego) maintain a distance between listeners and the band. During a stadium-show performance of “Neighborhood #3 (Power Out),” several of the group’s many members line up at the front of the stage to rock out. The moment calls to mind Bruce Springsteen...
...intellectual exercise of trying to figure out what’s going on with the patient very interesting. 13. FM: Do you think House is an accurate portrayal of life as an American doctor? HAZ: Not necessarily. Some of the things he does would not allow him to maintain his job. But I’ve actually met doctors like “House.” I’ve met my share of doctors like all the characters on that show. 14. FM: You may not be House, but you’ve been named...
...housing. Douglas J.D. Walo, the Law School’s housing administrator, said that the buildings were “difficult to work with,” due to their age and period style. Walo added that even though the houses have been almost entirely refurbished, the buildings still maintain their Victorian style. He noted Baker Hall’s stained glass windows, and all the houses’ woodwork as examples of continuity. “It’s hard to replace that sort of old craft,” Walo said. In the 19th century, when...
...Additionally, we maintain that horizontal floors in place of vertical entryways would make an important design improvement. Vertical entryways are an idiosyncratic quirk of our housing design that have outlived their usefulness in fostering social unity. While vertical entryways may be a characteristic feature of Harvard’s dorms, they should be scrapped in favor of more conventional horizontal hallways, which provide better opportunities for socializing among neighbors. It seems counterintuitive that the Planning Committee is investing in better social spaces within the Houses while neglecting the deleterious social effects of the space within which students spend a majority...
...Today, 189 countries are party to the agreement, of which five are allowed to maintain nuclear weapons. The four states that do not abide by the NPT—India, Israel, North Korea and Pakistan—have all developed, or are suspected of developing nuclear weapons capabilities of some sort. The Obama administration should work with all four of these nations to bring them back into the international fold (the U.S.-India bilateral accord of 2006 is a good starting point), and hopefully persuade them to give up their nuclear armaments...