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Semmel's class spends time on the increasinglyimportant pop music of post-war Britain, from therelatively wholesome "Teddy Boy" rock stars of the1950s, to the mods and rockers of the 1960s andthe punks of the 1970s...
...just as soon as Bush's popularity dove with the post-war recession of the early '90s, so too did arena rock fall off the map. Nirvana stormed the music scene in 1991, bringing Seattle grunge to the rest of the country and making alternative suddenly mainstream. By 1993, Winger, Damn Yankees and Bad English had disbanded, and Warrant, Poison and Nelson had fallen off the map entirely. Pushing them aside were bands like Pearl Jam, the Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden and the Smashing Pumpkins, turning the airwaves from a place of possibility and power--where our average triumphs were...
...Army have prevented Gulf War syndrome? As argument rages over whether the illness even exists, a transcript turned up Sunday by the Cleveland Plain Dealer shows an Army review board expressing doubt over an experimental drug administered to 8,000 soldiers ? a vaccine, some fear, that caused the widespread post-war health problems in veterans...
Habermas-who Seyla Benhabib, chair of the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, called "post-war Europe's most distinguished political and social thinker"-will visit Harvard on Oct. 28. Habermas will participate in a seminar discussion in social studies and a workshop seminar at the Center for European Studies...
...Force, a happy 50th, and some condolences. Empathize civilian-style along with Jimmy Stewart in 1966's Flight of the Phoenix. It's Lifeboat in the desert, or maybe a grim, post-war Gilligan's Island, with Stewart as an old-dog Skipper forced to yield to the "push-button world" and the ice-cold young German (the Professor?) who embodies it. You'll wince, maybe proudly, when Stewart tells us that "the little men with the slide rules and the computers are going to inherit the Earth." And then consider that this week, the whole thing could have been...