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...Thief, the most relaxed and diverse album in the career of rock's most analytical control freaks. "We've made some cold records in the past," says drummer Phil Selway. "This, to me, is the first thing we've put down that doesn't sound like a white-knuckle riot. I can listen to this." Hail to the Thief is still a Radiohead album--brooding in places, soaring in others, with a slight undertone of apocalypse all around--but the songs are shorter and tighter, and there are several uninterrupted patches of actual warmth in the vocals. "I was enjoying...
...South Africa, Gay W. Seidman ’78 confronted riot police and snarling dogs blocking the entrance to the headquarters of the Congress of South African Trade Unions. The University of California at Berkeley graduate student, already nervous about doing research on the South African labor movement under the noses of the oppressive apartheid regime, turned the corner and watched through a fog of tear gas as police arrested and beat the workers inside. She, too, was almost apprehended before the officers relented at the behest of a lawyer for the labor movement. As she puts it, her nearly...
...members of the class say the political brouhaha they most vividly remember was a comic strip character’s campaign for president—which set off a riot in the Cambridge streets and led to the arrests of 28 Harvard students...
Concordia gained international attention for last year’s September 9 riot, which shut down the scheduled speech of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. During the riot, a motley assortment of activists managed to occupy parts of the downtown campus, break windows and viciously taunt the speech’s ticket-holders. An elderly Holocaust survivor was reportedly spit on, while an Israeli flag was burned. As police barricades separated pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli students, I walked by with a first-year art history class on a museum trip. Having already survived one year at the cantankerous...
...themselves fully to activism. Hard leftists, they ally themselves with many of Concordia’s large Middle-Eastern community on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, making the issue dominate student political life. Widespread apathy has also allowed extremists to flourish in the CSU. The executive that oversaw the Netanyahu riot was elected with less than 7 percent of the vote. But when campaigning, even they had pledged to tone down the extremism of their predecessors and to run the school with “dignity.” Unfortunately they reneged on their promise, titling this year?...