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...stumbles) with a gusto that’s sure to recall a Beatles album or two for the historically-minded listener. The eclectic composition of “Love the Future” is both its boon and its bane. It reveals Chester French as more than just mass produced musicians, but occasionally this multifarious bent also leads to painful failures. Such missteps, however, are generally eclipsed by the stronger songs that surround them and the disc’s overall composition, which makes its 13 tracks fly by in a pleasurable breeze. “Beneath the Veil...
Tomorrow, April 24th, Armenians around the world will gather on what they call Martyrs’ Day to commemorate the Ottoman Empire’s deportation and mass slaughter of Armenians during World War I. Armenians and many others deem this the first genocide of the 20th century, citing scholarly consensus that the atrocities were a well-documented and premeditated wartime assault on an ethnic and religious minority...
...loaded is the term that it can override logic itself. In an official statement last year, President George W. Bush declared that “as many as 1.5 million Armenians lost their lives in the final years of the Ottoman Empire, many of them victims of mass killings and forced deportations.” Ironically, many Turkish activists celebrated this description for its omission of the word “genocide,” despite its overwhelming castigation of the events in all other ways. Never mind Bush’s accusation that their forebears had executed a campaign...
...Fresh and Honest: Food from the Farms of New England and the Kitchen of Henrietta’s Table.” Davis penned the book to promote local farmers and products. He spoke ruefully about the difficulties small farmers face when competing with more profitable mass-market farms. But he said that he was hopeful that small farms are making a comeback as the average American starts to “care more about where their food comes from.” For example, he mentioned that there are more farms in Massachusetts now than there were five years...
...DANIEL CARPENTER Cambridge, Mass. April 8, 2009 Daniel Carpenter is the Allie S. Freed Professor of Government and director of the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard...