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...even, exerting a vaguely soporific effect. This is the sort of music angry teenagers listen to in order to piss off the parents while catching a nap. The requisite heaviness, showcased on the cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain” is offset throughout by acoustic sections, but the juxtaposition struggles not to sound contrived, each acoustic passage luring the listener in for the predictable punch of distorted guitars...
...first course is a yellow fin tuna tartar, made with center-cut tuna that is chopped with roasted shiitake mushrooms, truffle oil, red onion, chives and extra virgin olive oil. The result is far less complicated than the lengthy recipe would suggest: a dish of delicate simplicity, offset by French string beans breaded with a light sheen of tempura and resting on a pungent mustard sauce. The dish was designed to complement the young and brash “Bone Jolly” Gamay from El Dorado County...
...eight roughing penalties were whistled on the weekend—four on that one play—with just one called without a matching infraction to offset...
Campaigns tend to be seven years, although the University is considering a 10-year campaign that would extend further into Allston construction and thus more substantially offset Allston costs. The other option, Rapier says, is to hold a seven-year campaign now and another one as Allston work progresses...
...attempt to correct for this, we are doing a number of things,” O’Brien writes in an e-mail. “First, we’re running numerous focus groups so that the dominant students at one are offset by the same at another. Second, we are looking for student input from other forums as well. We are using UC data (student requests for space and activity support), talking to athletic groups about their needs, polling clubs, and benchmarking the experiences of other schools...