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...Beat, the band’s sixth and most recent release, testifies this more intensely than any sound bite. After a year’s hiatus, they returned with an album where raw talent and energy have given way to ripe complexity and still more energy. The songs, rich with new production agility, are still sharpened with critiques of the post-Sept. 11 world. “There are reasons to unite / Is this why we unite?” the band demands on “Combat Rock,” a reggae-tinged homage to the Clash...
...campus female. Boston is full of them—Wellesley, Lesley, Simmons and Fisher, all women’s colleges in the Boston area, have a combined population of about 4,000, and at Boston University, women comprise around 60 percent of the population. The climate is ripe for Harvard men to look elsewhere...
...It’s a very ripe issue,” he said. “It has to do with the free flow of ideas that we relish at a university and the sensitive areas people might be working...
...common thread running through all environmental problems is overpopulation. Modern medicine and agriculture have made it possible for a larger percentage of our species to reach adulthood, reproduce and live to a ripe old age than at any other time in our history. At the same time, we are consuming more of the world's resources than our ancestors. Only by limiting population growth can we control these problems. JOHN N. VOLANTE Newton, Mass...
...budget austerity of U.S.-backed reforms, which freed the region from crippling hyperinflation and ushered in hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign investment. But they couldn't whip the plague of corrupt elites, absentee judicial systems and addiction to foreign capital that made Latin American capitalism as ripe for abuse and collapse as an Enron office suite. Says Stanford University Latin America scholar Terry Karl: "The Washington Consensus just further concentrated economic and political power in a region that already had the worst inequality in the world...