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It's true that Berlin, an emigre from Czarist Russia, had no formal training in composition. He could not read music. He employed arrangers to transcribe the pulsing melodies and often complex harmonies that poured out of his head and through his clumsy fingers. He could play in only one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: A Berlin Bio-pic | 12/30/2001 | See Source »

In 1982, Vaughan was crying through his guitar, but in 1985, he positively wails, his second throaty lament more focused and piercing than the already brilliant first. He’s also stretched out in style, layering his blues aesthetic with arena rock in “Life Without You?...

Author: By James Crawford, Andrew R. Iliff, and Daniel M. Raper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: New Albums | 11/30/2001 | See Source »

Najibullah, a 10-year-old refugee from Taliban-controlled Kunduz province, lives crammed in a ragged tent with his parents and four siblings. Already, he knows how to fire a Kalashnikov from daily target practice with his family firearm. When he is older, he hopes to fire a rocket-propelled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Child Soldiers | 11/11/2001 | See Source »

In costume, Webb wears a tarnished silver dress, ripped stockings on her arms and legs and large rabbit ears. Combining the symbol of the Playboy bunny with ripped and ragged clothing, she says the costume is meant to be a political statement about the contradictory aspects of femininity.

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: All The Square's A Stage | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

On the front lines of the war, you learn about America's strategy by staring at the smoke. Above the peaks and ridges of northern Afghanistan last week, the plumes billowed thick and black in long, ragged lines-calling cards of the B-52 bombers that each dropped 25,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan: The War Escalates | 11/4/2001 | See Source »

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