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...corners (9-0) and even penalty strokes (2-0), yet they still found themselves tied with Harvard at the end of regulation. Zacarian and Michigan goalkeeper Maureen Tasch—a former high school teammate of Dick, Harvard senior back Katie Turck, and Harvard sophomore back Diana Bowen at Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor—kept the game scoreless after the teams traded goals in opening 11 minutes...
This weekend also marks a homecoming for three Harvard players. Seniors Katie Turck and Eliza Dick and sophomore Diana Bowen all played at Pioneer High in Ann Arbor, which won three consecutive state championships during their cumulative careers. Dick scored the game-winning goal against UMass and added another against Yale...
...like finding a stack of vintage records in an old uncle's attic. The opening track, Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum, churns to a boogie-woogie-ish beat; the radiant Moonlight evokes Tin Pan Alley crooning and Western swing; and on the song High Water, Dylan pays tribute to blues pioneer Charley Patton. "All my songs, the styles I work in, were all developed before I was born," says Dylan. "When I came into the world, that spirit of things was still very strong. Billie Holiday was still alive. Duke Ellington. All those old blues singers were still alive...
...answers are various and not simple. Nigeria's Femi Kuti, son of Afropop pioneer Fela Kuti, has, like his father, created a vibrant, pulsing, sweaty, sexy sound that's half African by way of Africa and half African by way of James Brown. His politically conscious music (Kuti heads the political party MASS--Movement Against Second Slavery) reflects that same complex consciousness of borders. Kuti knows, for instance, that African kleptocrats have often used nationalism for their own ends, and he gives neither Western cultural imperialism nor African corruption a pass. "We get the wrong people for government," he sings...
...right: Brazilians were mixing local rhythms with international rock styles well before his father, Caetano Veloso, helped pioneer the Tropicalia movement in the '60s. And if Brazil continues to produce albums as delicate and emotionally complex as Music Typewriter, that country's music will occupy as honored a place in the 21st century as it did in the 20th...