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...always been in the hands of the faculty associated with them in partnership with FAS,” said Susan J. Pharr, director of Harvard’s Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. According to Pharr, Smith had reassured center leaders at a meeting on Friday that he would refrain from taking full control of their budgets...
...breaking away from the mold it casts for itself, but the rare displays of creativity among the myriad repetitions are quite welcome. “Wrecking Ball” features distant vocals and more original songwriting based on the lyrics as a whole rather than just the chorus. The refrain very simply states, “And I’m always swinging on this wrecking ball / While you’re building up and breaking down my wall.” Although this is repeated three times throughout the song, the chorus is sung through soft background vocals, allowing...
...still leave a little to be desired—“You’re all talk and nothing to say / We don’t want, don’t want what you’re giving away” runs the much repeated and emotionally-empty refrain. The attempt at alteration is at least admirable, however, given the rather repetitive nature of the rest of the album, however...
...question that kept haunting me, as I got fuller and fatter as the evening wore on, was the old Peggy Lee refrain: Is that all there is? Everyone was putting their heart into it - father-and-son restaurant moguls Jeffrey and Zach Chodorow created a fine potato-bun burger out of pure love of the game, without even a restaurant to promote, and they looked almost stricken when they didn't win. But winning is hard, with everyone bashing their head on the ceiling of burger perfection. (See a video of Americans competing in the Bocuse d'Or food contest...
Skepticism Makes Sense Well-informed analysts know to keep the champagne on ice. At a conference at Tufts University last week attended by experts on Afghanistan, not a single optimistic take on that nation's long-standing problems could be heard. One comment became a refrain: "I have no doubt that peace will one day come to Afghanistan, but I can't say if it will be in 50 or 200 years," a speaker said. "What I can say is that at the rate we are going now, it's unlikely to be any sooner than that...