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...audience will also be present in Israel. “They were awesome,” said Milo “Mishy” Harman ’08. Roee Gilron, a Brandeis student, said had seen the band previously in Israel. “Tonight, they were more serious about their message compared to when I saw them in Israel. We used to listen to them in the army all the time. They’re cool,” said Gilron. New York businessman Joey Low, who founded Israel at Heart six years ago, said the concert...
...undeniably good thing—involve reservations about time. The argument is that if Lamont becomes a student center, there will be no impetus for the construction of a real student center across the river. If the last year has taught us anything, it is that student activism, serious or otherwise, can change the minds of College and University planners. Until that’s proven wrong, it makes no sense to downplay and insult what the College is already offering...
...whoop, right? But it turns out some people actually have interesting thoughts on a regular basis, and a few of the better blogs began drawing sizable audiences. Blogs multiplied and evolved, slowly becoming conduits for legitimate news and serious thought. In 1999 a few companies began offering free make-your-own-blog software, which turbocharged the phenomenon. By 2002, Pyra Labs, which makes software for creating blogs, claimed 970,000 users...
Blogs are inverting the cozy media hierarchies of yore. Some bloggers are getting press credentials for this summer's Republican Convention. Three years ago, a 25-year-old Chicagoan named Jessa Crispin started a blog for serious readers called bookslut.com "We give books a better chance," she says. "The New York Times Book Review is so boring. We take each book at face value. There's no politics behind it." Crispin's apartment is overflowing with free books from publishers desperate for a mention. As for the Times, it's scrutinizing the blogging phenomenon for its own purposes. In January...
...Claiborne to campus. Once they’re done with this year’s Haute, Vestis will get started on plans for next spring’s career panel and lecture series. The founders work hard to fight against perceptions that a fashion club is not serious. “I feel like we get pigeon-holed,” says O’Neill, the Council’s president. “It’s not like in our meetings we talk about what people are wearing, and different styles we should do, and that...