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...activist group Students for Democratic Society (SDS) took over University Hall. Late that night, University Hall was set upon by state troopers and the Cambridge police, who put an end to the occupation. The reverberations from the takeover are still felt on campus today, in ways ranging from the riot-proof design of Canaday Hall, which was completed in 1974, to the Progressive Student Labor Movement’s own Mass. Hall takeover in the spring...
...intent on getting as much of the book on screen as possible, and the movie inevitably creaks under the weight of Rowling's imagination. Columbus, in fact, was accused of being too slavishly faithful to Rowling's first book. This time, he also lets his own imagination run riot from time to time. In the new film, Quidditch - the ballgame played by witches and wizards on broomsticks - seems more like a thrilling car chase than an intramural sport. And Harry's showdown with a monstrous serpent in the bowels of Hogwarts should equal the most excitable readers' expectations. Making their...
...From first light on Sunday, women in thick brown veils, families on donkey carts and men dangling chickens from bicycle handlebars throng the streets. A riot of headgear?Mao caps, white Kyrgyz ak-kalpaks, woolly Turkmen telpeks and the black-velvet hats of local Uighurs?reveals the diversity of the traders. Behind food stands, cooks dish out noodles; grinning barbers with wicked blades offer death-defying shaves. This is the place to buy a fur coat or an intricately inlaid knife. Or, less exotic but well traveled, a bottle of Head & Shoulders shampoo...
...morning, Tibon's jeep pulls up at Joseph's Tomb. Palestinians say it's the tomb of an old sheik, but it was a Jewish seminary until rioters from surrounding Nablus neighborhoods overran it early in the intifadeh. "This is a piece of history," whispers Tibon. "The riot here was a turning point in the intifadeh" because the Israeli army hesitated to rescue one of its soldiers as he bled to death and then had to retreat in the face of a Palestinian onslaught. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has reached another standoff. The violence in the West Bank is giving...
...critic Robert Christgau said once of Sleater-Kinney that, “The reason that they are as important as they are is that they’re not a lesbian band in any kind of limiting or definitive way.” Referring to the fact that despite riot grrrl’s genesis as a way for girls to play guitar whether they were “good” at it or not, Sleater-Kinney’s musical virtuosity transcends politics. But the band contains multitudes, and predictably enough, refuses to choose among characterizations...