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...hours of trying to dance haphazardly to implosive quasi-funk is enough for a day, which is why Plaid garnered the most cheers and excitement. Besides their relative fame, as former members of the Black Dog—a pioneering techno outfit—and as one of the Warp label’s most acclaimed artists, Plaid throw all pretensions out the door. Their music is quirky and experimental, even resembling some of the insectile funk and robo-talk that had preceded them. Yet it’s a perfectly logical extension of the Detroit techno, electro...
...Harvard we’re encouraged to pad and perfect our resumes, to schmooze and network and kiss all kinds of ass. Women here want to be CEOs and sit behind the Oval Office desk. This is all normal and I, too, am ambitious. But during this quasi-crisis, I feel like I have to choose between professional success and personal (maternal) happiness. I’d like to be able to prepare an afternoon snack for my kids and go to all their T-ball games and still have 800 employees, but I’m scared...
...editorial pages of a few publications have a monopoly on intellectual debate. It is, in fact, okay to talk about topics other than who got to second base with who last weekend and whether that disrespects some other person she’s “quasi-dating.” Just don’t make it a place to show off your in-depth knowledge of some obscure branch of sociology. In any case, leave the endless banal blathering about relationships to those select professionals appearing...
...World War II, the capacity of that conflict to stir up strong feelings shows little sign of ebbing. It was a clear-cut struggle against evil. A new take on the nature of that evil is explored in an absorbing, meticulously-researched account of how the 1943-55 quasi-fascist regime led by Argentine dictator Juan Perón spirited thousands of wanted war criminals from Europe. The author of The Real Odessa (Granta, 382 pages), Buenos Aires journalist and TIME contributor Uki Goñi, manages to arouse a new sense of shock about this episode...
...process secret after a close brush with a pesky request for evidence in a lawsuit against the University. And most tenured Faculty would say it’s better that way. Loker Professor of English Robert J. Kiely, a 25-plus year veteran of the English department, gives a quasi-rousing justification of the current process. “In one way, one can defend the tenure process because we are trying to get the best people possible. It has to be painstaking. I don’t know if it will change,” he says...