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DIED. WILSON PICKETT, 64, volatile R&B star whose gravelly, raunchy delivery on such 1960s hits as Mustang Sally and In the Midnight Hour inspired the 1991 film The Commitments and helped earn him the moniker Wicked Pickett; of a heart attack; in Reston, Va. Despite drug and legal battles, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer remained inventive and determined, answering the disco craze with explosive live performances, which he continued until shortly before his death, and meriting a 2000 Grammy nomination for It's Harder Now, his first album in a decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jan. 30, 2006 | 1/22/2006 | See Source »

...that stage to perform it to all those people, you're totally into the music and transported." It's definitely one of the most ecstatic - and sweatiest - musical gigs I've ever been to. The competition kicks off at 11 a.m. and lasts until sometime around midnight. tel: (1-868) 623-4486/6831; www. pantrinbago.co.tt

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sheer Pandemonium | 1/21/2006 | See Source »

...Having arrived optimistically the night before with a full head of steam, students find themselves trapped in a mist of boredom. They stand no chance in the stuffy atmosphere. Further soothed by a lullaby of turning pages and tapping keys, is it any wonder that Lamont’s midnight tenants yield to sleep? Could this, rather than Harvard’s natural exhibitionism, be the real reason behind Primal Scream? Come sub-zero temperatures, it is only natural that students should burst enthusiastically from their overheated study zone to engage in this animalistic ritual. Their hopes of cooling...

Author: By Juliet S. Samuel, | Title: Blowing Off Steam | 1/18/2006 | See Source »

...their $4,430-a-year meal plan. Consequently, students are often forced to spend their own limited funds on food in the Square, either because they are unable to eat before 7:15 p.m. or because they (the 97 percent of the student body that is normally awake past midnight) need additional calories to supplement their dusk dinners as the next day begins. The average student currently eats 13.6 meals per week in Harvard dining halls, which HUDS expects will rise to 14.1 meals per week if dinner is lengthened. Although a price increase to the meal plan will...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Scrumptious Proposal | 1/10/2006 | See Source »

...when he took the Office of Legal Counsel job and ending with his elevation to his current post on the circuit court. Colleagues say he was admired for collegiality. When two of his young aides had to finish a memo for the next day, he stayed with them past midnight and went to the law library to fact-check the memo they wrote, a task usually left for much more junior aides. But at his new job at Justice, what his co-workers remember above all is that he lived up to his reputation as focused more on legal reasoning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cool Fervor of Judge Alito | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

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