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...Cube Lethal Injection (Priority). Ice Cube's raps about police brutality and white immorality enter the ear and expand in the brain like a Black Talon bullet; his lyrics are sometimes inexcusable, but his logic is often inescapable. Ignore his high-caliber insights at your peril...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BEST MUSIC OF 1993 | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.” In 1925, when a Harvard alumnus expressed “utter disgust” about the amount of Jews on the Harvard campus to then-President Abbot Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, Lowell replied that he “had foreseen the peril of having too large a number of an alien race and had tried to prevent it.” While Lowell’s overhaul of the admissions system discriminated against Jewish applicants at the time, the principles he advocated have ultimately led to a more diverse College body...

Author: By Andrew D. Fine | Title: An Exceptional Class | 10/26/2005 | See Source »

...sudden fear, his feet were not his own but those of another, less laden with curiosity and daring. A missed beat turned into a shuffle, a pause, and then a failed pitch at recovery.No one could fault the loser. A dance duel created through Architecture in Helsinki smacks of peril. An eight-mate, endlessly-outfitted ensemble that defies genre, the group left no instruments unplayed. What began the night as a guitar, a bass, some drums, some voices, and a piano evolved at odd points to include a triangle, a Casio keyboard, a trumpet, a flute (total Jethro-style...

Author: By Adam C. Estes, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Helsinki Rocks Middle East | 10/13/2005 | See Source »

...film’s creativity runs rampant, the plotting’s a little too timid for its own good. After raising the stakes with their last outing, “A Close Shave,” wherein the lives of the protagonists seem to be in genuine peril, the two reside in safer territory in “Were-Rabbit.” This time, anything that’s in mortal danger can generally be found at a salad...

Author: By Ben B. Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Movie Review: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | 10/7/2005 | See Source »

Byrd, who carries a copy of the Constitution with him at all times, said in a press release, “Without constant study and renewal of our knowledge of the Constitution and its history we are in peril of allowing our freedoms to erode...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Law Requires Talk on Constitution | 9/19/2005 | See Source »

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