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...actually woken up by a friend, a journalist, who told me to turn on my television. I had this very curious dream that late that night, or early in the morning. I have no way of explaining this. I'm the farthest way from a New Age type of person, in spite of living in California. But it was a dream in which I was on an airplane and sitting next to another woman, a stranger. Two young men came up carrying pistols and shot twice. I remember in the dream the bullet went through my throat and the throat...
While students hoping to hear the quirky melodies of indie chanteuse Regina Spektor may have been taken for the ride as part of the Lampoon’s latest antic, it was Spektor herself—who emerged from the Castle on an eight-person bicycle—who was taken, literally, on the wildest ride of all. Friday’s event, advertised as a “presentation” to students over e-mail lists, featured a series of brief appearances by singer-songwriter Spektor before a crowd of students eager to hear her perform...
...biggest hurdle may be convincing autonomy-minded Catalans and Basques that they need a Spanish anthem at all, let alone a new and improved one. "Spain is a country of diverse cultures and languages," says Julian Casanova, professor of Spanish history at the University of Zaragoza. "Whenever one person takes out a flag, someone else brings out a different one. It's the same with national anthems." Casanova suspects that political interests, more than sporting ones, lie behind the effort to pin words to melodies. "Whether it's the national anthem, or the PP's efforts to get everyone...
...your books. Over the past two weeks, students looking to exit Lamont Library efficiently have encountered uncommonly long lines at odd hours of the night. Students attributed the hold-up to a new security guard’s thorough examination of their books and belongings. “Every person I talk to complains about this line,” said M. Amelia Muller ’11, noting that the new guard, James Fasci, makes “everyone take every book out.” “Other security guards glance at books...
Gore's win was widely expected, but there may still be those who wonder how an environmentalist could be, as the Peace Prize's description goes, the person who has "done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations." They shouldn't. Climate change is already a key instigator of conflict in areas like Darfur, where drought likely worsened by global warming helped trigger a civil war that has claimed over 200,000 lives. (Nor are Gore and the IPCC the first greens to win the Peace Prize; that would be the Kenyan Wangari Maathai, a conservationist...