Word: presentism
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...former feel, however. It can be heard in the pulsing, scratchy bass hook of “Crawl” and the heavily distorted and musically simple “Sex on Fire.” Lead singer Caleb’s strained southern drawl is still (mostly) present throughout, and there are moments where the album looks as though it’s making a u-turn back to true Kings of Leon form. Yet something’s still off. It all sounds a bit too grandiose and cleaned up. “Only by the Night?...
...Fowler-Finn told the audience on Wednesday night. The meetings were a result of the district’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Middle School Education, a formalized effort to study and improve the city’s middle school system. The Commission charged Fowler-Finn with presenting a set of recommendations to the school committee, based on feedback from administrators, teaching staff, and parents. On both nights, Fowler-Finn went over the pros and cons of four potential options for Cambridge’s middle schools, which include working with the current K-8 structure, establishing...
...Cambridge, it also involved a lot of careful planning with various interest groups, how it relates to their neighborhood,” Hartman says. “We had a meeting with the neighbors in a school cafeteria—a community meeting, and an opportunity for me to present them to the kind of work that I do.”“Buildings built in the 18th or 19th centuries were built with masonry and thick walls—buildings are very much like individual citadels, individual objects on campus—very little animation...
...elections and slumping economy have helped make the pursuit of power ever-present. “In terms of the debate and the election, I think it is important to look backwards in order to see where we are going forwards,” he says. “And although ‘Network’ was a joke in the 1970s, it became a reality in the 2000s. If we don’t learn from our past, we will make the same mistakes in the future...
...fortress remain unplastered. Shoib Najafizada, Afghan Logistics and Tours' man in Mazar, leads visitors around the rusty remnants of tanks and heavy artillery that lie strewn around. Like other guides, Najafizada offers firsthand accounts of some of the key moments of the country's recent turbulence. He was present at the battle of Qala-i-Jangi, as a translator for the coalition forces, and today he deciphers the untouched graffiti scratched in Persian and Urdu into black scorched walls of the fortress: "Long Live the Taliban," or "In Memory of Mullah Mohammad Jan Akhond," a Pakistani fighter with the Taliban...