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Asani came to Harvard as an undergraduate in 1973, when the University was "just beginning to diversify racially" and went through enormous culture shock...
...expert riffs of Dave Navarro and, here, the now seductive, now speedy bass plucking of Flea, the meaning of "soundscape" and "integrity"--in the literal sense of fullness--becomes clear. With the exception of something like "Been Caught Stealing," with its eminently marketable dog barks and MTV mock-shock video, Jane's Addiction has always had the ability to make one forget about the asphyxiating, essentially D.O.A. verse-refrain structure of the rock song. The proof is in the aural pudding--smooth, textured, not strung together...
...Evidently aware of the widespread shock and revulsion at the high death toll, the group tried to shift responsibility to the Egyptian authorities ? claiming the "brave" gunmen would merely have kidnapped the foreigners, had police not opened fire so quickly...
...There is a time for the world?s policeman to walk around half-cocked. Indeed, as we discovered in the cruise-missile fests of June ?93 and September ?96, spanking dictators can bring clinical conclusions to potential conflagrations. Call it the short, sharp shock theory of international crisis management...
CAMBRIDGE: Shock waves continue to reverberate through the American legal system one day after Judge Hiller Zobel's surprise decision to free a British au pair convicted by a jury of murder. Aghast, prosecution attorneys swore vengeance for baby Matthew Eappen. Others were uneasy at the way Zobel had imposed his will over the jury?s. "We are a system that believes in juries," said TIME National Correspondent and former civil rights lawyer Adam Cohen. "When a judge steps in, you have...