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...straining to see what’s coming, writing with the passion of the discoverers in the sestet of Keats’ “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer.” In a world that is, above all, confused by its own amazing progress, Powers is a stabilizing force, taking a step back, slowing down, to show us, our hearts and heads alike, what we are doing, and where we are going.The book’s final punchline comes from its subtitle. Just about every cover of a Powers book has the subtitle...
...light-heartedness of the instrumentation makes the pathos inherent in Vernon’s voice less grounded, resulting in a track that is simultaneously light and catchy yet deep and moving. The album emerges an intriguing and surprising experiment. Several of the songs are so freeform that they progress along an undetermined path, ending with little resolution or warning. The opening track, “Husks and Shells,” begins with acoustic guitars tuning and warming up in the distance. Eventually, the guitars settle on a melody, but never on a rhythm, and the melody is repeated erratically...
...community development projects in the Allston area. The first grants were distributed in June, and the project will begin accepting its second set of proposals this month. The plan is in line with Harvard’s commitment to support the Allston community, and we are encouraged by its progress...
...policy year by a Democratic President since Lyndon Johnson's legislative tidal wave of 1965. Obama has pushed through a $787 billion stimulus package and doubled down on the Bush Administration's financial-crisis remedies, which seem to have prevented an economic crash. He is making quiet but substantial progress on education reform; his energy policy will probably be all carrots and no sticks - that is, no cap-and-trade program for carbon emissions - but it will provide a significant boost to green-energy industries. And despite the screechers of summer, he seems likely to pass a universal-health-care...
...Perhaps pressure from the rest of Europe will help. "We haven't heard anything from Brussels yet, but I am sure that the European Commission will express concern in its annual progress report [on Serbia's E.U. membership] in mid-October," Milica Delevic, the head of Serbian Office for European Integration, tells TIME. "Europe expects us not just to pass antidiscrimination laws but also to implement them and to create a political climate where you don't need 10,000 cops to protect a minority...