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...when Kanye went onstage over an hour late, due to an unnecessary collection of lights and glamour.Perhaps someday I will be able to attend this generation’s Woodstock. Existing in the space along the fringe of the crowd, the people whose culture we were trying to co-opt served as a reminder of my romanticized view of music festivals, of the way things could have been. It is there that the Grateful Dead hippies, with their white bushy beards and carefree steps, have been dancing since the first synthesis of LSD. Perhaps I would have been less disillusioned...
...happy by the change. “I logged into my Facebook, and it looked terrible. It looked like a tundra,” he said of the new interface, which is significantly wider and bluer. In the early stages of its launch, Facebook users were able to opt in and out of the new layout. The switch became mandatory and permanent last week.Chief among Bethel’s many complaints was the amount of work he suddenly had to do in order to navigate the Web site. “I had to drag from one corner to another...
...don’t think it should be the case that incoming students who opt for the Core will find any dearth of courses,” said Jeffry A. Frieden, last year’s chair of the Core’s Subcommittee on Quantitative Reasoning...
...just in case they don't, Obama has become increasingly aggressive in challenging the GOP ticket's efforts to co-opt his mantra of change. "You can't just re-create yourself," the Democratic nominee said Monday. "You can't just reinvent yourself. The American people aren't stupid." But if he is going to win over the Wal-Mart moms, Obama is also going to have to make a stronger case for himself...
...Russian cooperation is essential. If the Israelis are to achieve their objective of forcing Iran to end uranium enrichment through diplomatic coercion, they will need Russian support for escalating U.N. sanctions - a course of action for which Russia has thus far shown little enthusiasm. And if Israel were to opt for trying to destroy Tehran's nuclear facilities through a series of air strikes, then the presence of the sophisticated Russian S-300 missile system in Iran would considerably raise the risk to Israeli pilots. Unfortunately for Israel, however, there may be little it can do to shape Moscow...