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Rock is used to front men like Bono (who wants to throw his arms around the world) and Mick Jagger (who wants to throw his legs around the world). But Radiohead's lead singer, Thom Yorke, would just like the world to behave. His best songs--Fake Plastic Trees, Let...
He told the story of an unprincipled business associate “who would shake hands on a deal and then construct a rational argument for abandoning it.”
“There’s an element among people who spend a lot of time at the racetrack of an anti-authoritarian, unconventional—if not entirely anarchic—frame of mind,” Crist says, and this applies to even the most intellectual and...
“If there had been a level playing field, if the community had the kind of political and economic power that Harvard had, I think the rational decision would have been to deny the project,” he says.
“We simply wanted to respond to the quite rational feeling that students from these countries would be in a Catch-22—unable to afford to stay in Cambridge, but perhaps unable to return to Cambridge if they went home,” he said.