Word: singularities
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...activities fee, which funds the council’s budget. Others have stated reservations about opening the floodgates to all kinds of new fees for worthy initiatives. But we dismiss both concerns as unwarranted. We are confident that helping Harvard become a greener energy consumer is of unique and singular importance, and it is one that has nothing to do with student’s desires to fund the council. The student body must take action now, and the council must not stand...
...says. "Bad shows don't. I don't care what type of shows they are." It's unclear whether many will watch ABC's new hits in reruns or syndication, two reasons procedurals are such moneymakers. And ABC can't just spin off Desperate Housewives: Minneapolis. "They are singular shows," says McPherson. "I don't think imitating them will be successful...
Last Friday, while we all agonized about the impending U.S. elections, in Rome a singular political spectacle took place. On the Capitoline Hill, crowned by Michelangelo’s beautiful piazza, 29 European heads of government and of state met to sign the European Union (EU) constitution. The tulips were Dutch, the direction Italian (Franco Zeffirelli, of “Romeo and Juliet” fame) and all the politicians looked dapper indeed as they posed before the iconic statue of Marcus Aurelius. In true European style, however, the performance was surrounded by a flurry of chaotic disagreement...
...surviving Wilson brother?—but nothing can touch the ambience of anxiety, mania, and rapidly imploding self-confidence that makes the original recordings so hauntingly incredible. For the music and for the story behind it, the unfinished Smile recordings of 1966 and 1967 are my choice as singular monument to both the promise and disappointment of drug culture and the Greatest Drug Album of All Time...
...course, it’s not perfect. Some tracks’ vocals seem like they might have been stronger after one more take, and if there is one singular quibble with the Smith-less mastering, it may be with the heavy use of ambient noises (epitomized in “Ostriches & Chirping”). But as a coda—by design or not—to a long and fascinating career, From a Basement functions superbly, and it does so in a way that continues to remind us of how much was lost a year...