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...announcement comes as the College mounts its own crackdown on underage drinking. And it comes three years after the old owner of Louie’s Superette, the popular convenience store near Mather House, had his license suspended for 12 days for selling alcohol to minors...
...polloi. You either get it or you don’t, the conventional wisdom says, and neither side of the divide wants much to do with the other.Except for Alex Ross, that is. His book manages not just to reach across the vast chasm between classical and popular music, but also to make the distance seem shorter, the depth of the chasm shallower, and the passage across easier. He told a reporter for The New York Observer last month that “the whole point [is] to not be too in-your-face or condescending?...
...with an ordinary subject and traditional, pithy strokes. This extension of tradition pushes the bounds of modernism, and museums often grapple with categorizing the art. “What an exhibition like this does,” says Lentz, “is to really call into question the popular perceptions and notions of what is modern, what is contemporary. You could take a curator of contemporary art from MoMA and they would look at these paintings and say, ‘This is not my idea of contemporary Chinese art.’ You could take another curator from...
...they are yet—it will backfire. It’s high-risk.” Twelve major companies have signed on to the initiative, including Coca-Cola, Blockbuster, eBay, Travelocity, Herbal Essences, Sony Pictures, and Verizon. “I feel like Facebook, recently, was actually made popular because of the fact that it was mostly geared toward students who wanted to get to know each other or just talk online. The whole corporate aspect of it seems like an intrusion and I don’t know whether I like that,” Jason...
While Musharraf was ready to make firm a date for parliamentary polls that would see the election of a new Prime Minister - a position most Pakistanis assume will be filled by the popular Bhutto - he was less definitive about when, exactly, he was planning to step down as chief of Pakistan's army...