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Madonna and British film director Guy Ritchie have announced they will end their marriage after seven and a half years together, according to a statement released Wednesday afternoon by the pop star's spokeswoman...
...sound of a near-total stranger taking up space. No matter the room number, from the River to the Quad, everyone seems to share a wall with the most absurd of characters. They scream at inhumanly high pitches, they cackle and guffaw, they blast ’90s pop into the wee hours (especially during Reading Period). Some of us respond in kind—by yelling for quiet, throwing sneakers at the wall, or just learning to grit our teeth and bear...
...mood around New York City, as among mom-and-pop investors around the country, went from worry to confusion to, at times, cautious optimism, only to circle back to fear. At a panel discussion on Friday on the seventh floor of the New York Stock Exchange, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon was asked how much more credit crisis is left to play out. "Nobody really knows," he said. "Clearly we're in the panic stage of unreasonable behavior." At the Connecticut offices of UBS, nervous colleagues passed around a joke about why the market was like a divorce but worse...
...Witchcraft and Charm Magic.”“There is now an Idiot’s Guide to Wicca and Witchcraft,” Mitchell said. “That’s how you know it’s come of age in pop culture.”MYTHIC EXPANSIONThe Folk and Myth committee offers three different options for secondary fields—Literature and Performance, Mythology, and Folklore.One of Tatar’s priorities as chair is to strengthen the Mythology secondary field, which is currently lacking an introductory-type class...
...rubbing hips can fall into two categories: alarmingly scary or mildly amusing. Throw weapons into that mix and you’ve either got a deranged Barney episode or The New Pornographers’ “Mutiny, I Promise You” video. This is your typical indie pop outfit (think Tilly and the Wall) video: hyper-chromatic garb and lighting, bouncy vocals, DIY sets and props, and relentless, exaggerated theatricality. The band members begin in an overcrowded cardboard box doing “cool” things like reading Borges and taking Polaroid shots of each other...