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...yesterday, the first day of Harvard’s 365th academic year. Yet thoughts and conversations lingered on Tuesday’s catastrophic events in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., with most professors prefacing their opening lectures with words of solace and support for those in attendance. The solemn mood on campus stood in sharp contrast to the excitement that has accompanied the start of past school years, but within the somber atmosphere in Harvard Yard there also existed a sense of continuity and resolve. Despite the traumatic and still unfolding developments of the previous 24 hours, the Harvard...
...buffoons with titles like Karate Schnitzel, then proceed to defy expectations with precise guitars, polished vocal harmonies and slamming backup musicians. Their tunes, informed by '80s hard rock, will get frat-boy fists pumping, and their boundless capacity for self-mockery makes most professional rockers look like solemn poseurs...
...nothing else, Thornton at least has considerable experience going for him as a songwriter. But he squanders it all in a profound humorlessness. "Angelina," a solemn ballad presumably inspired by life with Lara Croft, is laughably square in its approach to romance. Chorus: "Angelina/ Can you feel it?/ Watch the angels as they're dancing up above/ Angelina/ What's come between us?/ Could it be the magic and the mystery of love?" "Dark and Mad," and "Your Blue Shadow," dour ruminations set to plodding country, do little to improve the situation. The sense Thornton gives the listener is that...
...there, he's out of excuses GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO Philippine Prez weighs offer to be Unilever soap girl. She will scrub the Abu Sayyaf so squeaky clean they will beg for mercy GRANDPA BUA Thai monk turned over $6 million in donations to central bank. Surprised government officials make solemn vow to embezzle the funds
...combination of spontaneous and carefully arranged moments of childhood repose and revealingly--sometimes unnervingly--imaginative play. What the outraged critics of her child nudes failed to grant was the patent devotion involved throughout the project and the delighted complicity of her son and daughters in so many of the solemn or playful events. No other collection of family photographs is remotely like it, in both its naked candor and the fervor of its maternal curiosity and care...