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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...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Asani Uses Diverse Background as Tool in Teaching Indo-Muslim Language, Culture | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A New Addiction: Fumbling Toward Ecstasy | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death on the Nile, Part 2 | 11/19/1997 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME's Weekend Review | 11/15/1997 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uproar Over Freed Au Pair | 11/11/1997 | See Source »

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