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...television, it already has. American Idol, beneath the contestants' naked ambition and buckets of flop-sweat, and Simon Snide's eviscerating bitchiness, is reacquainting the country with its glorious musical past. One week, everyone must sing a Cole Porter tune; the next, '50s rock 'n roll is the genre. All right, the performers don't take their vocalizing cues from the swingin' precision of Ella Fitzgerald, the hiccupping innocence and intensity of Buddy Holly. Instead, they sound indentured to the wildly mannerist melodramatics of Mariah Carey and Michael Bolton. ("Just sing the damned song," my friend George Grizzard has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gotta Sing! Gotta Dance! | 4/7/2006 | See Source »

...because it’s about as big as the bedroom in my apartment. Maybe it’s because there’s no cover. Maybe it’s because it’s only a T stop or a five-minute bike ride away from Porter Square. In any case, I’ll be spending quite a few nights of my senior spring at this sweet little hole-in-the-wall. One of my friends met me at the club; upon arriving, his first question was: “Is this...

Author: By Michael A. Mohammed, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hotspot: Toad | 4/5/2006 | See Source »

...other events the Crimson participated in, Boston College and Tufts, rounded out the top five. “We won the regatta pretty convincingly,” Johnson said. Along with senior crew Emily Simon, the two earned a second-place A-division finish, while co-captain Vincent Porter and senior crew Ruth Schlitz cruised to a first-place finish for the team’s B-division. The same held true for sophomore skipper Kyle Kovacs and sophomore crew Elyse Dolbec, who easily took first in C-division. The D-division team of co-captain senior skipper Sloan Devlin...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Enjoys Sweet Sailing on Home Waters | 4/4/2006 | See Source »

...races we did lose were all learning experiences,” junior skipper Clay Johnson said. He was joined by crew Emily Simon, as well as co-captain Vincent Porter and crew Ruth Schlitz. Also sailing were sophomores Kyle Kovacs and Elyse Dolbec, who served as skipper and crew, respectively...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Earns Top-Five Finishes | 4/2/2006 | See Source »

...half-floor” would need to consent to the co-ed rooming agreement, according to Georgi. And Cambridge Historical Commission guidelines restrict the extent to which Dunster House, built in 1930, could conduct internal renovations to accommodate co-ed arrangements, according to Co-Master Ann Porter. “We agree on the principle, but there’s a lot to work out,” Associate Dean for Residential Life Suzy M. Nelson said, according to minutes of the meeting transcribed by the UC’s Benjamin W. Milder ’08. The soon...

Author: By Pedro V. Moura, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: College Closer to Co-ed Suites | 3/22/2006 | See Source »

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