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...currently enrolled in eight classes, which requires two different study cards, the signature of his senior tutor and a petition to the Ad Board. Holden’s classes include: “Poets as Critics” (Lit 133), “Philosophy of Mathematics” (Phil 148), Trees (Science B-40), a conference course entitled “The 20th-Century Post-Realist Novel in Eastern Europe” (Comp Lit 164), the sophomore Literature tutorial (Lit 97b), a proseminar entitled “Husserl and Heidigger” (Phil. 136), and “Intensive German?...
...CHARGED. PHIL SPECTOR, 62, legendary record producer turned virtual recluse; with first-degree murder in connection with the fatal shooting of B-movie actress Lana Clarkson; in Los Angeles. A close friend of John Lennon, Spector co-produced the Beatles' final album Let It Be. His revolutionary "wall of sound" recording techniques transformed the music industry, making possible such 1960s pop hits like the Ronettes' Be My Baby and the Righteous Brothers' You've Lost That Loving Feeling. Spector has been released on $1 million bail and will be represented by Robert Shapiro, the lawyer who played a key role...
...kilter pop album that topped many “Best of 2001” lists, critical darlings The Microphones have promptly returned with their follow-up. A considerably darker affair, Mount Eerie is a challenging five-song concept album of meditations on death. Central Microphone Phil Elvrum sculpts an appropriately chaotic mélange with his frail, wavering voice, delicate guitar acoustics and haunting background vocals provided by labelmates Mirah and Calvin Johnson. Most prominent, however, are the constantly booming percussion and out-of-sync drum loops, which evoke (respectively) Mount Eerie and the narrator’s phobias surrounding...
...foil freshman Jon Carter, sophomore Phil Sherrill and co-captain Ben Schmidt also finished with just a single defeat...
...Since 1987, when the government first opened its doors to them, more than 150,000 Viet Kieu have returned to work for multinational corporations, nongovernmental organizations or themselves. There are more than 700 Viet Kieu-owned enterprises in Ho Chi Minh City alone. Phil Tran's animation company, Glass Egg Digital Media, is one of them. But, says the 39-year-old whose family departed Saigon when he was 12, "There's always been tension between those who stayed and those who left." Many Vietnamese see returnees as carpetbaggers who escaped the lean 1980s and now flaunt their wealth. Viet...