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Matching writer to hero in this fifth installment of the TIME 100 was an intriguing game of free association. Some match-ups made immediate sense: "The American G.I.?" brought the response "Colin Powell." "Jackie Robinson?" "Hank Aaron, of course." Others triggered supporting epithets. "Andrei Sakharov?", for example, brought on "Fang Lizhi." Pause. "The Sakharov of China"--the press moniker attached to the dissident astrophysicist who sought refuge in the U.S. embassy after the violent crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations. Yes, of course...
...Daniels, 33, is likely to be cast as Cavaradossi anytime soon. Countertenors are male altos who sing in a highly developed falsetto, though few are fond of the word, which implies that there's something "false" about a vocal technique used by everyone from baroque-music specialists to Smokey Robinson. "The way I sing is no different from the way the Motown people sing," Daniels points out with a grin...
...feed them. I've played some of the most violent video games, but I don't have the urge to make killing a reality. Like many other young people across this world, I have common sense and the ability to think and choose for myself. ADAM ROBINSON, 20 College Park...
...exposing the rulers of society as they dominate the common people, as when Woodrow Wilson promises to "make the world safe for corporate oligarchy." Even some of the most inviolable struggles and achievements of our century don't escape the sharp wits of the Onion's writers, as Jackie Robinson's integration of base-ball is preceded by Edwin Miller's becoming the first white to play in the Negro Leagues and complaining about always having to stay in nicer hotels and enter through the front door...
...elected its entire slate of executive board members in last week's election: Whitney R. Robinson '01, alumni representative; Aaliyah N. Williams '02, lecture series chair; Bianca R. Gwinn '01, public service chair; Julia M. Rosenbloom '01, publications chair; Aaron S. Montgomery '00, senior representative; Jennifer L. James '02, arts and entertainment chair; Skylar H. Byrd '00, on-line and technology chair. Byrd is also a Crimson executive...