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BATTLE CREEK, Mich.—My Harvard roommate e-mailed me the other day to alert me to her new-found knowledge, courtesy of a television commercial sponsored by Kellogg’s Company, that Battle Creek is where “apple is considered a real word.” The source of this “fact” and her amusement was an advertisement for the new Fruit Harvest cereal that threw my little hometown back onto...
...which would sit easily on David Bowie's Low - begins with a declaration: "I ain't got nothing to be scared of." And Albarn does seem musically fearless. Think Tank is often experimental but never jarring, mixing synth and acoustic picking. You can hear bassist Alex James enjoying the new-found space in the mix; unidentified "world" instruments are used sparingly and add to the melodic ease of a band that no longer feels compelled to fill the air with distortion. At least until the Cook-produced Crazy Beat and the one-minute punk-stomp We've Got a File...
...indeed: these international students seem to be quick studies. Both Palmer-Amaning and Kabue, perhaps spurred on by their love of grinding, have spent time in the Harvard-Radcliffe Ballroom Dance Club, something that has earned some gentle mockery from friends back home. But Palmer-Amaning found his new-found skills served him well. “It is a very useful skill to know how to turn a girl around,” he explains. Kabue, though, has a slightly less positive view of the practical benefits of learning to dance at Harvard. “I think...
...explain the peacefulness of Florence and, with this lack of creativity, actually grasped the truth which eluded some European news sources: Florence was of a different cloth than Genoa. Florence was a strategy and networking session for a new European left. Fifty-five thousand people from 88 countries gathered for five days of multi-lingual debate attempting to articulate their new-found unity. They continued a conversation sparked by Genoa and formalized at this spring’s World Social Forum in Brazil. The expectation of violence lay in the mischaracterization of the gathering...
...embrace the empowerment that comes with school choice. The public is as resistant to funding parochial education as ever before because it is wary of breaching the separation of church and state. However, discussion didn’t end with Zelman—rather, it has gained a new-found importance in the context of community debate...