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Mira Calix (the working name of Chantal Passamonte) admirably kept the vaguely disturbing vibe alive as the resident DJ, spinning records from the comfort of the rear stage, barely visible. Signed to the venerable Warp Records, she has often been called the female Aphex Twin. Yet unlike Twin’s growing penchant for self-parody, Calix showed off razor-sharp musical sensibilities and flawless taste in records with a daintily mixed set of beguiling experimental tunes...
...officer was dispatched to Greenough Hall on reports that two individuals were smoking marijuana at the rear of the building. A search for the suspects came up negative...
...September evening in 1999, Dr. Richard Carmona was driving to a University of Arizona football game in Tucson when he came across a traffic accident. A pickup truck had rear-ended a car. Carmona, a trauma surgeon and deputy sheriff on the local SWAT team, started to approach the truck when bystanders shouted that the driver had a gun. Carmona, who was off duty but carrying a pistol, called for backup and moved in, asking the driver to put down his weapon. The man was a mentally ill ex-convict who had murdered his father that day. He looked...
...battle scene. After more than 200 Palestinians fled into the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, said to be the site of Jesus' birth, Israeli soldiers laid siege for four days, peppering the 1,500-year-old building with bullets and, according to those trapped inside, blowing off the rear door. Elsewhere Israeli forces rolled into the West Bank towns of Hebron, Nablus and Jenin and continued to confine Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in his compound in Ramallah. As the fighting worsened President George W. Bush, the United Nations and European Union leaders called on Israel to end its retaliation...
...athletes, both teams participated in heated competitions, with both teams losing by narrow margins. The Dartmouth men won with 91 points, followed by Harvard with 85 and Brown with just 27. On the women’s side, Brown edged out Harvard 77-73 and Dartmouth brought up the rear with...