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Last night they streamed into the North House dining hall to hear some of Harvard's musical performance groups at the ever-popular a capella jam. Afterwards, pre-frosh attended an "ice cream smorgasbord...
...good news is that at least some of this music is innovative, not just a kowtow to the blues progressions of 70s rock nor an insipid imitation of punk. If we are confronted with a smorgasbord of styles, it may be because Rock peaked in the seventies and frayed in the eighties in the face of gum-snapping pop mall music from hell. Rock is resurfacing in the 90s like a groundhog scared of its own shadow, and many musicians claim they'd rather be dead (or unsigned) than be imitators of their predecessors or of each other...
...sure, many of these stock markets have been around for some time, but until recently obstacles to investing in them were too daunting for most players. Now investors nearly everywhere can choose from a smorgasbord of national and regional equity funds run by people who can claim to know what they are doing. Martin H. Paling, chief investment strategist for London stockbrokers James Capel, says, "Equity investors are clearly becoming more adventurous. For example, the large rises in markets in Latin America reflect more than domestic interest...
...home in the dry weather and summer temperatures that can reach 46 degreesC (115 degreesF). Because the insect is happy eating some 500 varieties of plants (one of the only vegetables it doesn't seem to like is asparagus), it found the fertile Imperial Valley to be a veritable smorgasbord...
Under the FCC proposal, telephone companies would be allowed to package and deliver a smorgasbord of television programming, including shows already carried by cable systems and broadcast stations. The programs would be transmitted via a so-called video dial tone, carried over fiber-optic cable, which would cost the phone companies billions of dollars to install. Defending their turf, cable-TV operators contend that the phone companies would have an unfair advantage because they could subsidize their video service with profits from their phone business...