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...Americans. Again, although there are certain responsible steps we should take, there’s good reason to doubt whether even a kinder, gentler America will have its virtue recognized. Even if we changed our Israel policy or dropped our sanctions on Iraq at bin Laden’s request, we would still be the most prominent and most successful devotee of the Western, secular spirit against which the radicals of the Muslim world have defined themselves...
When Iftikhar went before the License Commission again for a hearing last week, his request for a permit to close at 3 a.m. was denied once again. Three Cambridge residents, worried about late-night noise from the pizzeria, attended the hearing to lobby for an earlier closing time...
Every so often, prisoners from local jails call in to the station using an original method: they call collect, and make their request in the few seconds of time normally allotted for the caller’s name, hanging up before the DJ has the chance to accept...
...such sexy-voiced female DJ, Thalia S. Field ‘03, who is also a Crimson executive, has her own explanation. “Many of the people who make requests are very strange,” she says. “It’s a great radio station, but what we play appeals to a certain type of person. Like noise music.” Noise music? “Recordings of ordinary sounds, like jackhammers. The movement started in the 1930s with Pierre Henri, who composed musique concrète,” she explains. Though...
...file is a treasure trove of information. It reads like a good biography—with the added benefit that it is entirely about you. The file contains such juicy documents as: your application to Harvard, complete with the markings from the admissions officer who read it; your roommate request form, including an administrator’s short synopsis of your personality and your first-year proctor’s evaluation of you at the end of your freshman year. (Yes, Tom, I saw the crack you made about my doomed singing aspirations...