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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...resurrected ghost of desire. When the striking hook emerges in the expansive chorus, it has epic weight of truth; love is, as the Cardigans insist, the surrender of sanity and the beginning of hard, ambiguous emotions. Again and again the songs return to these dark themes of alienation and pain. Love "kills you, it keeps you alive," Persson purrs menacingly in the slick, jerky "Explode," and she means...

Author: By Jared S. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cardigan's Latest Album is Swede and Low | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...stretchmarked body, the big pain...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sifting Through Thirty Years of Seamus Heaney | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...late-late Tuesday evening and organic chemistry is starting to blend with Ec 10, which is strangely beginning to look like First Nights. You crave caffeine. You look down. Damn. Already in your pajamas. Can't be running to Au Bon Pain for coffee in this getup...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Praise Dining Halls Pulling Late Nights | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...course, the reason the Dig is in the news so much is that it's a pain in the ass. Bostonians are confused about why the dig is taking so long and wonder why their apartments now look out into giant cement mausoleums. One possible explanation for the overwhelming length of this project is generous snack breaks for the workers. Granted these guys work hard, but do $27,000 a month of taxpayers money need to be spent on little Debbie snack cakes? Another big fund-sucker is the fish initiative that concerned many local environmentalists. To ensure the safety...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, | Title: Dig This. | 11/5/1998 | See Source »

...Last year I endured the horrible, horrible pain of having to retract a bid for a band" because of lack of funds, she said. "If there were any way to avoid that, we would have...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Questions Surround Found Council Funds | 11/4/1998 | See Source »

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