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...Harvard University’s first Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies in 1987. Fuentes, who has taught at many prestigious institutions and currently teaches at Brown University, addressed the audience with frankness and humor. In a conversation with Maria Hinojosa, the host of National Public Radio??s Latino USA, he discussed the need for a bilateral effort for peace between Mexico and the United States. He also mentioned the importance of the arts in directing progress for the Mexican nation. Openly confronting the issues of immigration and drug wars in Mexico, Fuentes stated that...
...premise, moreover, is farcical: Talk radio operates under the rules of the free market system. There is no structural advantage for conservatives; they just happen to flourish in this realm. Nothing is hindering liberals from talk radio success other than their lack of appeal to talk-radio??s conservative-leaning audience, just as conservatives struggle to prosper in the liberal dominions of print media, the Internet, and late-night television comedy...
...settle into the traditional Travis formula of Healy’s voice over rhythmic guitar and piano. However, the song explodes as Healy, channeling Bob Dylan, belts out the story of J. Smith’s intended suicide: “Oh the mould has been cast / The radio??s in the bath / Yeah yeah yeah.” The song soars up into an ethereal, polyphonic Latin chorale reciting Smith’s sad tale before the guitars roar and begin a heavy-metal-lite reprise. The song returns to basic rhythm guitar and drums...
...risky change or more of the same.Luckily, after the map has been rent all asunder and our nation bleeds red and blue again, we’ll still be able to look toward the horizon for another installment from Sarah Vowell. Vowell, a humorist and contributing editor for public radio??s “This American Life,” is a unique and moving voice in American culture, whose incisive and intelligent writing is rarely surpassed but often matched by her ubiquitous sense of irony. What makes Vowell’s brand of humor impervious...
...Lebone Solutions’ device, which has been in the works for eight months, is a microbial fuel cell-based lighting system that generates a current from the energy produced by metabolizing microbes in soil or manure. The technology produces enough energy to power a cell phone or a radio??little commodities that are especially important in a place with no electricity, said Alexander B. Fabry ’09, a member of Lebone Solutions. The device was designed by a team of six students and alumni, including Van Vuuren, Fabry, Stephen H. Lwendo...