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...Sultans of Swing" are absent. Most of the songs are fairly transparent paeans to episodes of America's folk past, never mind Knopfler's British extraction. The title track features Knopfler and guest James Taylor in a mock-up of a very awkward conversation between Mason and Dixon of Mason-Dixon line fame, but the song holds together if you don't pay attention to the lyrics. Unfortunately, Knopfler seems to have lost the ability to choose exactly the right words for a situation that he displayed so brilliantly in that other Straits staple "Romeo and Juliet." "Who's Your...

Author: By Arts Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Albums | 10/13/2000 | See Source »

Harvard's effort south of the Mason-Dixon Line and west of the Appalachians paid off, displacing Harvard's long status as a regional, New England college...

Author: By Matthew F. Quirk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Class of 1950 | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

...Harvard's effort south of the Mason-Dixon Line and west of the Appalachians paid off, displacing Harvard's long status as a regional, New England college...

Author: By Matthew F. Quirk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The New Guard of the Ivory Tower | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

Fortunately for the Harvard softball team, the remainder of its regular season schedule features no more games south of the Mason-Dixon Line...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Softball Happy to Return Home After Tough Road Trip | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

...predict three possible scenarios, starting with the Big Divorce. Somewhere around 2025, people will pick a gender equivalent of the Mason-Dixon Line and sort themselves out accordingly. In Guy Land the men will be free to spend their evenings staging belching contests and watching old Howard Stern tapes. In Gal Land the women will all be fat and happy, and no one will bother to shave her legs. Aside from a few initial border clashes, the separation will for the most part be amicable. At least the "battle of the sexes," insofar as anyone can remember it, will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Women Still Need Men? | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

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