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...tiniest plosive could break the spell. Here Ann gets a bit more sonically aggressive (sometimes the drummer uses sticks!) but vocal minimalism remains her strength, so she whispers along with her acoustic guitar, barely singing songs about being in Montmartre when she wants to be in Manhattan. She's precious but hypnotic, too. M.I.A. Arular The child of a Sri Lankan Tamil rebel leader, Maya Arulpragasam moved to London at age 12 and discovered hip-hop. Now 28, she has produced a mini-masterpiece that merges Jamaican dancehall patois and Missy Elliott's stuttering rhythm with a political viewpoint entirely...
Quad House email open lists lit up three days ago with the realization that Quadlings’ precious Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center (QRAC) was going under the knife until September. The long-planned renovations, which will convert some exercise space and a basketball court into a new dance studio, stem from student demand for dance practice space as the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study reabsorbs the Rieman Center—the current home of Harvard dancers. Viewed narrowly, the renovations are a victory for dancers and a loss for exercise-hungry Quadlings. Broadly, however, the QRAC’s impending...
Sure, sure. you're hopelessly, helplessly in love with your iPod. That doesn't mean your precious doesn't have pimples. What about iPod's notorious lack of endurance between recharges, the sealed case that means you may have to scrap the thing if the internal battery dies, and the proprietary digital- music format that joins you at the hip to Apple's iTunes online store? Apple may hold more than 60% of the market for hard drive-based digital-music players, but even iPod devotees may have wandering eyes?and competitors are all crying "Pick me!" by delivering fetching...
...mass street protests. The public will also carefully watch what Tsang does regarding the city's West Kowloon Cultural District, a huge real estate project that has drawn accusations of collusion between the government and Big Business. Then there's the state of the harbor, Hong Kong's most precious natural resource; air pollution; worsening traffic; conservation; the widening wealth gap?in short, everything you'd expect from the educated and cosmopolitan society Hong Kong has become...
...tiniest plosive could break the spell. Here Ann gets a bit more sonically aggressive (sometimes the drummer uses sticks!) but vocal minimalism remains her strength, so she whispers along with her acoustic guitar, barely singing songs about being in Montmartre when she wants to be in Manhattan. She's precious but hypnotic...