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...It’s Christmas time, again / It’s time to be nice to the people you can’t stand all year / I’m growing tired of all this Christmas cheer,” in traditional Blink-182 sing-song fashion. Smash Mouth and ’NSYNC also make their standard contributions. But as well as these songs fit within the TRL genre, none of the album’s non-traditional material has a snowball’s chance in hell of achieving the status of Christmas classic...
...antiglobalists were "blown off the stage," in the words of American radical and online writer L.A. Kauffman. And it wasn't just that the press and TV cameras moved on to a bigger story. The very language and symbolism of some antiglobalist protest - the calls to smash capitalism, the angry young men with their faces covered in bandanas - have taken on a whole new meaning in the wake of a terrorist attack on the heart of the global financial system. Some politicians have gone so far as to use the attacks to discredit the movement. Clare Short, Britain's Secretary...
...friends, to nu-metal. Once, long ago, metal bands staggered into your town to loot and pillage. Then something weird happened, and suddenly a whole bunch of geeks simultaneously discovered the powers of shredding guitars. Now we have groups like Alien Ant Farm, who neither scream their words nor smash their instruments, though they’re not above “spanking” their guitars to get a giggle from the fans. AAF greet their audience with an amiable, if calculated, “everybody have a-gud-day today?” and later concedes...
...stick. But then one night . . . “I heard this rustling noise, so I was a little wary,” says LaFlamme. He and Myers proceeded to enter his room and search out the critter. The noise came from behind a French dictionary, so LaFlamme proceeded to smash the book into the back of the bookcase. No luck. “Then we thought it was in the heater, so we kicked it. And nothing happened. So then we decided to smoke it out using some clove cigarettes. The fumigation was a resounding failure,” LaFlamme...
More importantly, Morris is on pace to smash most of Harvard’s receiving records. With 48 catches in six games so far, he is on pace to break the single-season record of 60, which he set last season. And with 132 career receptions, Morris ought to break the record of 146 held by Terrence Patterson ’00 in the next week or two. By the end of his career, if not this season, he will also hold the records for total receiving yards...