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Singer-songwriter Conor Oberst, 22, an accidental heartthrob with a tremulous voice and a knack for heart-on-sleeve ballads, is the other Omahan on the radar. Last month his new group, Desaparecidos, released its first album, Read Music/Speak Spanish, but he had already garnered a legion of teenage and college fans with his other band, Bright Eyes. He started playing in Omaha bands as a bespectacled Harry Potter look-alike and gradually came into the date-worthiness that has helped land his picture in Seventeen and Jane. Like the Faint, who mix effete dance rhythms with heavy guitars...
...with good reason: Disney’s cartoon history is riddled with often offensive representations of women and racial minorities. The portrayals are made all the more insidious by their ability to slide under the radar of the Disney’s prime audience: unwitting children...
Though he still had not located the missing plaques late yesterday afternoon, Jones did pinpoint when and where the awards had slipped off the radar screen. In his attempt to track down the missing plaques, he watched tapes from the hotel’s security cameras...
...current professors, Elaine Scarry, embodies this ideal of reaching across disciplines. Professor Scarry can speak intelligently about Locke’s Second Treatise, and then apply her unique interpretation to Tennessee Williams’ Streetcar Named Desire. She has written articles about the physics of electromagnetic radar and the crashing of planes. She sits on interdisciplinary initiatives like MBB. Professor Scarry may be an unusually talented individual, but there is no reason why we cannot all try to emulate her to some degree...
...Japan inhabit an Edenic state of bourgeois affluence with no strings attached. We enjoy a comfortable lifestyle, yet remain untroubled by civic duties. We can't vote, we may lack linguistic fluency, our opinions are presumed to derive from our national stereotypes, we rarely blip on the national radar, so we are absolved from caring overly about where we live. Japan's problems, except in a Japanwatching way, are not our problems. However, as someone who intends to return in five years to put a child through Japan's elementary-school system, the country's failings suddenly matter more...