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...Cockfighting is quite violent and - for lack of a better word - Osbournesque, as in shockrocker Ozzy Osbourn, not the playwright John Osborne. The first time I saw a gallero stick the bloody head of a wounded rooster in his mouth, suck on it like a popsicle, and then spit out a thick stream of chicken blood, I thought the combination of beer and sun was playing feverish games with my head. Across the arena I saw my friend Jon's face, and he had the same open-mouth-lost-gringo expression that I imagined my face was showing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is that a Rooster in Your Mouth? | 2/16/2007 | See Source »

...vaulted ceilings of nearby Lampoon Castle...just down the road, self-reverence was in equal attendance at the Fox’s annual Valentine’s Day dinner this weekend, replete with drunken poetic toasts and even a sing-a-long (whatever, just make out already)...speaking of spit-swapping, onlookers stood horrified as one dean’s son got (and gave) an enthusiastic mouthful from Harvard’s resident nympho. Gross...it’s been a big week for the big screen, with two Harvardians in the final for Beauty and the Geek and another...

Author: By FM Staff, FM STAFF | Title: Chatter | 2/14/2007 | See Source »

PRINCETON, N.J.—Once again, Harvard traveled to Princeton hoping to take down its Ivy rival. And once again, for the 18th time in a row, Jadwin Gym’s Tigers chewed up the Crimson’s hopes and spit them out whole. Harvard (10-11, 3-4 Ivy), riding a stunning 33-point performance from sophomore Drew Housman, pushed a depleted Princeton squad to its limit, but ultimately fell in a 74-68 double overtime thriller Friday night. The Crimson has not won at Princeton’s Jadwin Gym since 1989. Friday night proved...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tigers Triumph in Fifty Minutes | 2/11/2007 | See Source »

PRINCETON—Once again, Harvard traveled to Princeton hoping to take down its Ivy rival. And once again, for the 18th time in a row, Jadwin Gym’s Tigers chewed up the Crimson’s hopes and spit them out whole. Harvard (10-11, 3-4 Ivy), riding a stunning 33-point performance from sophomore Drew Housman, pushed a depleted Princeton squad to its limit, but ultimately fell in a 74-68 double overtime thriller Friday night. The Crimson has not won at Princeton’s Jadwin Gym since 1989. Friday night proved just another...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Another Tragic Jadwin Defeat for Crimson | 2/10/2007 | See Source »

That doesn't mean you can program a computer with Tymoczko's orbifold maps and have it spit out beautiful compositions. "I don't want to sell these maps as the royal road to composition," he warns. "They don't substitute for the hard work of learning how to move notes around." But they can help show when a new idea is promising and when it will probably lead to a dead end. "They might make an O.K. composer good," says Tymoczko, "but they won't make a good composer great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Geometry of Music | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

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