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...anxiety that sometimes permeates the air around midterms and finals periods, for example. At those times everyone’s stress rubs off on everyone else! Having just seen my first set of stressful finals period at Harvard, I think spoken word is going to become an increasing outlet for me to express myself in a nonacademic pursuit. Over the next four years I hope I have the courage and creativity to be honest in my poetry and not be afraid to try new styles...
...that first question--will Feels like Home soon be welcoming you into every restaurant and retail outlet in America?--well, there's really no qualitative reason it shouldn't. And yet it's almost impossible to imagine a scenario in which Jones can repeat the cultural dominance her first album achieved. For one thing, she won't be filling her days with phone interviews and photo shoots. For another, multiplatinum-sales phenomena like Come Away with Me have a logic all their own. Buying the first album by a beautiful, jazz-inflected underdog was an act of self-definition. Buying...
...Alongside such violence, there have been other more subtle?though no less worrying?developments. Serious criticism of the government is now strongly discouraged: Te-helka.com, an online investigative-media outlet that managed to film several officials taking bribes, was shut down, and a systematic campaign of harassment let loose against its employees and investors. Individual Hindus have employed strong-arm tactics against Christian missionaries and burned down churches. And school history textbooks have been rewritten to depict India's medieval history as a long saga of unending Muslim barbarism. As Neeladri Bhattacharya, professor of modern Indian history at Jawaharlal Nehru University...
Wanda and Bill at least have found a productive outlet for their anxieties: they helped organize a church group that sends letters and care packages to soldiers in Iraq. "It's helped us direct our energies," Bill says. "We're doing something instead of just sitting around feeling sorry for ourselves." --By Paul Cuadros/Fayetteville and Maggie Sieger
...avoid exorbitant shipping fees is to order online and pick the item up yourself at the store. A growing number of retailers are offering this option, among them REI, Circuit City, Best Buy and Sears. But it won't always save time. Be sure to confirm that the outlet you have in mind has the item on hand or can get it quickly, or you might end up empty-handed after...