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Barlow’s fans continually requested their own pet sounds in an atmosphere reminiscent of a gathering of old friends. Barlow graciously accepted many requests, and mixed enjoyable crowd banter in with his mellifluous singing. Despite a history of rough musical relations (he was booted from Dinosaur Jr. because of his overbearing nature, and was responsible also for the breakups of both Sebadoh and the Folk Implosion), Barlow came off as neither stern nor aloof, and affably shared memories and stories with the audience all night...
...project in 1999. “One night I went to the Carpenter Center and began to eat it,” she said in an interview for an exhibit at Artists Space in New York City this past summer. “I sanded the edges with a rough sand paper, catching the dust in my hand and then licking it from my palm.” Melts in your mouth, not in your hands...
...groups--like the National Alliance and Aryan Nations--have either died or been arrested in recent years. In the confusion, less formal splinter groups and rabid online communities have formed. Stormfront, the first major white-supremacy site, was created in 1995 and now claims to have 45,600 members. Rough estimates put the total number of members of white-supremacist groups in the U.S. at about 100,000. Many more are unaffiliated--which doesn't mean harmless. Of all hate crimes, only 5% to 10% are committed by members of hate groups, says Brian Levin, director of the Center...
Within a year of his arrival at Harvard, however, Summers found himself in the midst of a public relations crisis, facing criticism from all sides for his loose tongue, his rough treatment of various professors, and above all, his extremely charged feud with African American Studies star Cornel R. West ’74. Factions of the faculty were in an uproar, and in reporting the unrest, the national press painted Summers as a man who simply never learned his lesson...
...Summers worked on smoothing his rough edges, the press stayed on his case—paying him a reluctant respect while insistently dwelling on his propensity towards blunt and unforgiving behavior...