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...Anticipation has a habit to set you up / for disappointment,” Turner sings, but a few lines later he assures us that “Tonight there’ll be a ruckus, yeah, regardless of what’s gone before.” And he’s right: as long as you don’t anticipate the best album ever, you’ll have a great time enjoying the ruckus...

Author: By Jake G. Cohen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not | 2/23/2006 | See Source »

When University President Lawrence H. Summers’ comments on women in science sparked a ruckus last January, the president turned to an old-fashioned apology to defuse criticism of his remarks...

Author: By Nicholas M. Ciarelli and Javier C. Hernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Sorry! The Game Larry Can’t Play | 2/14/2006 | See Source »

Kanye West raised a ruckus in September when, at a Hurricane Katrina telethon, he said: “George Bush doesn’t care about black people...

Author: By Laura A. Moore, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Prof Seeks Basis for ‘Blackness’ | 12/2/2005 | See Source »

...First, the fact that students would think it necessary—let alone acceptable—to wake up the entire campus on the night that they choose the newest members of their organizations, is shameful. Second, the College’s lack of any attempt to prevent this ruckus annually constitutes a conscious failure to maintain quality of life in the dorms...

Author: By Nicholas F. B. Smyth | Title: The Plympton Street Hooligans | 11/16/2005 | See Source »

...Officers were dispatched to Lowell House entryway L in response to two individuals allegedly conversing loudly and smashing bottles. Police arrived to check out the ruckus but found no such individuals...

Author: By Robin M. Peguero, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POLICE LOG | 9/26/2005 | See Source »

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