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...Revue. Ike first got the attention of record VIPs with his muscular, thrashing guitar on Rocket 88, his 1951 album with Jackie Brenston. Then, after a teenage Tina grabbed the mike at one of his shows, he changed course; for nearly two decades, the pair upturned the worlds of R&B and pop with hits like Proud Mary, Nutbush City Limits and I Want to Take You Higher. After Tina left in 1976, Ike fumbled, but last year he found new fans with his Grammy-winning album Risin' with the Blues. He was 76. He held one of the most?...
...hate to say it, but this time I’m with Fred. At the Republican Presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa, this Wednesday, the moderator asked the candidates to raise their hands if they believed in global warming. Former Sen. Fred Thompson (TN – R) refused: “I’m not doing any hand shows today.” Stunned, the moderator pressed harder: “And so, is that...
...Justine R. Lescroart ’09 is an English and American literature and language concentrator in Quincy House, and is currently studying abroad in Granada, Spain. Her column appears on alternate Wednesdays...
...Steven R. Levitsky spent more than two decades studying Latin America despite his mother’s confusion as to why a “nice Jewish boy” would do so. On Friday the Harvard government professor, an undergraduate favorite, was offered tenure here.Levitsky only learned about the decision the following day. “I had gone home early to make latkes for a Hanukkah party, and couldn’t be reached,” Levitsky said in an interview yesterday.“I was shocked,” he went...
...R. Hwang ’08, despite boasting a one-two punch of Harvard’s most popular concentrations—government, with a secondary field in economics—is a campus figure without parallel. Every Harvard class has its ultra-popular John F. Kennedy ’40 and its budding mogul Steven A. Ballmer ’77, but a man who tapes a giant poster of an eye in his Canaday common room window and threatens passersby via bullhorn with pseudo-totalitarian sayings is in a league...