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...songs veer quickly into the realm of the absurd. Through four albums of material, Muse’s releases have generally tended towards the former. “Black Holes and Revelations,” realeased in 2006, finally earned them popularity in the U.S. to match the fanatic following they enjoy in their native country, the U.K. Their new record, “The Resistance,” has spent the last year or so building hype and collecting a variety of unlikely rumors about its contents—including speculation about African and electronic influences. The reality...
...ever there was a week to watch Harvard women’s soccer, this is it. Not only is the team capping off a three-game road trip and then playing in a nationally-televised match, but the Crimson is playing two local competitors...
Last year Harvard fought to an unexpected 1-1 tie against the Eagles, and this Friday it is hoping to pull out the win. If the Crimson succeeds, it will give the team great momentum going into the weekend’s second match against Boston University, which will be televised live on the Fox Soccer Channel...
...troops where the bad guys were - largely in Helmand province on the Pakistani border, home of nearly 60% of the world's opium crop, a place that was firmly in Taliban control. But pursuing conventional warfare in Afghanistan is about as effective as using a football in a tennis match. The Army's new counterinsurgency doctrine says you go where the people are concentrated and protect them, then gradually move into the sectors the bad guys control. That is not what we're doing in Afghanistan. In addition to all the other problems we're facing - the corruption...
...Online institutions like the University of Pheonix, Devry, and even Harvard’s own Extension School offer convenient and relatively inexpensive online courses, to busy mid-career students looking to beef up their resumes. Professor of Education Christopher J. Dede told the NY Times that technology could never match the “home runs” that human tutors can deliver. “With technology,” he told the paper, “we don’t aspire to home runs, but good solid angles.” Many of his colleagues at Harvard...