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...dimly lit den on the eve of a major German offensive in March 1918 don't question the war or even talk much about it. They don't make speeches about lost comrades or pine for sweethearts back home whom they may never see again. They just eat and sleep, relieve one another on guard duty and complain about the meat cutlets. They do their duty, simply because there's nothing else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to the Trenches | 2/23/2007 | See Source »

...this problem where I don’t really like math, so sometimes I would fall asleep in class. It turns out that the other black student had the same problem as well. Because we felt that both black people in the class couldn’t go to sleep at the same time—at least one of us had to be a “good” negro—we took turns going to sleep. Unfortunately, I was the only black person in my pre-calculus and calculus classes, so I had to continuously...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Being A Token | 2/23/2007 | See Source »

...this problem where I don’t really like math, so sometimes I would fall asleep in class. It turns out that the other black student had the same problem as well. Because we felt that both black people in the class couldn’t go to sleep at the same time—at least one of us had to be a “good” negro—we took turns going to sleep. Unfortunately, I was the only black person in my pre-calculus and calculus classes, so I had to continuously...

Author: By Lumumba Seegars | Title: Being the Token | 2/23/2007 | See Source »

...lines (e.g. “There’s no harm / There’s no harm / There’s no harm done”) but the circles shift sufficiently to make the songs interesting. Slow harmonic builds like the one at the end of “Sleep in Splendor” are what redeem this disc from the oblivion of sonorous boredom. And thank goodness that almost midway through the disc, the rolling guitar of “Rise” hits. The song, which boasts a loosely trotting chorus that hints at Spanish guitar and dusty...

Author: By Elsa S. Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Calla - "Strength in Numbers" (Beggars Banquet) | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

Students’ daily schedules do not often conform to their biological clocks’ pleas for them to sleep when it begins to grow dark outside...

Author: By Anthony J. Micallef, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Winter Blues Plague Undergrads | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

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