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...Harvard organizations that need light jazz for cocktail parties, holiday functions, and formals of various stripes—and they prefer undergrads. We, of course, preferred audiences that came to listen, even if we didn’t necessarily merit them; but we didn’t mind making mood music as long as we were also making money, so we took all the gigs we could...

Author: By Jake G. Cohen | Title: Background Music | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

When TV reflects a shift in the public mood, it often does so counterintuitively: 24 thrived under Bush, but so did The West Wing; Norman Lear's progressive comedies flourished under Nixon. And for all the change in the news, our top-rated shows remain American Idol and crime dramas, as they have been for years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Networks Look Ahead: Change, the Channel | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

...than his predecessor George W. Bush did, Obama has been leaning hard on Israel to halt its expansion of Jewish settlements in the Palestinian territories and to declare its readiness to accept a "two-state solution," meaning an Israeli and a Palestinian state living side by side. But the mood in Jerusalem is defensive. At a Sunday Cabinet meeting, Israeli ministers openly defied the U.S. demands. Israeli Transport Minister Yisrael Katz told Army Radio, "I want to make it clear that the current Israeli government will not accept in any way the freezing of legal settlement activity in Judea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israeli Rejection of Settlement Freeze: Trouble for Obama | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

...players were optimistic about their ability to succeed. But with missed shots—including a close attempt from freshman Melanie Baskind that deflected off the crossbar—and Penn finding the net once in each half, the Harvard team emerged from the game in a completely different mood. “It was our first Ivy League game, and we lost it,” junior Christina Hagner said. “After that game, we got together because people’s heads were down, worrying, ‘What does this mean for the season...

Author: By Alex Sopko, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: TEAM OF THE YEAR: Dramatic Victory Seals Ivy League Championship | 5/30/2009 | See Source »

...Child Called Noah, "from a deep, pure place." The joy emanates from him with such force that he will run toward me with his wide smile and rub his head against my shoulder in an almost feline gesture of pleasure. On days when Noah is in a good mood, when he is humming an up-tempo version of his melody of repeated, nonsensical syllables, we are again reminded that he is capable of great happiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Growing Old with Autism | 5/25/2009 | See Source »

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