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...carpet at every mid-'90s hipster event that attracted a camera. The incongruity of Tony Bennett next to k.d. lang and the Red Hot Chili Peppers made for great gossip-page photographs and generated enough heat to get Dad his own MTV Unplugged, and that's where Tony really shook things up. He stood by the piano in his shiny suit and sang the exact same standards he has been singing since Larry King was a boy. People marveled - What a voice! What taste! What class! But the only thing that had changed was the context. A decade later, singers...
...last semester, I fell asleep in my 9 a.m. Russian class so consistently on Wednesday mornings that it prompted my concerned teacher to ask, “Anya, what is wrong?” When I mumbled something in response about a magazine and a broken film processor, she shook her head and said “A newspaper isn’t worth failing out of school...
...blockmate shook his head. “I wrote my college essays,” he said, remembering, “And then I went back and read them again…and they just made me hate myself.” We sat in front of my computer, gazing at my sister’s common-app essay. She had sent it to me for a final proofread, and I had fetched my blockmate from next door to get a second opinion. At the moment, however, both of us were far more absorbed in mentally scrolling through...
Cafer Yilmaz was at work in his bakery on a broad boulevard in Istanbul's modern new financial district at about 11 a.m. last Thursday when a tremendous bang shook down the building's windows and walls. Across the street, yellow smoke poured from the 18-story headquarters of the British-owned HSBC bank, where a pickup truck packed with homemade bombs had just set off a mighty explosion. "That first moment was not at all like you would imagine from the movies," Yilmaz says. "No one was screaming or running. If you had slapped me, I would probably have...
Rather than find a new way to lose, Harvard hit its stride after a 10-day layoff, shook off its recent big-game blunders and came through with a cathartic 5-2 win before a sellout of 2,776 at Bright Hockey Center...