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...ambiance of his earliest records, buried now below vocal effects and extended (by Beam standards) “jam” sessions. While this diversification of instrumentation isn’t all bad, it’s a bit unsettling at first. Songs like “White Tooth Man?? and the quasi-title track, “Wolves (Song of the Shepherd’s Dog),” sound like remastered rarities from mid-period Phish records. Much of the rest of the album just feels busy, like a first-time user tinkering with Garage Band...
...only one that I—one of just two black males in the class—ended up reading was Jewish author Bernard Malamud’s 1957 novel “The Assistant,” while my very Jewish friend read “Invisible Man?? by black author Ralph Ellison. My pal claimed that Malamud’s novel was too boring and depressing. This summer, as I languished away in the Cambridge sun, something—a longing for the familiar, perhaps—told me to revisit Malamud and his tale...
Would “Spider-Man?? have stuck without Tobey Maguire? Would “Fight Club” have been the same box-office knockout missing Brad Pitt...
...recent study, which was published in an online edition of the Journal of General Internal Medicine, asked over 200 mostly white resident physicians to prescribe treatment to hypothetical patients based only on a picture of a man??s face and a description of the patient’s sharp chest pain. All of the hypothetical conditions were the same, except for the fact that some of the men were white and others were black. A great deal more of the physicians prescribed thrombolysis for the white men than did for the black...
...seemed exactly the same: Derek C. Bok was President; Professor Michael J. Sandel, the Bass Professor of Government, was teaching Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice” to capacity crowds; the smart, serious students still wore heavy backpacks, waterproof boots, and puffy down “Michelin Man?? coats. There were even disgruntled protesters in Harvard Yard—it all seemed in order and profoundly familiar. Over the course of the semester, however, I discovered that the Harvard I graduated from in 1982 is not in fact frozen in time. Harvard has become more modern...