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There's little melodic instrumentation: the guitar simply thrums on the one and three beats, and the piano plays left-hand figures, essentially functioning as a bass. It's all percussive, as in a military band. Civilian life, the arrangement says, isn't much different from the Army, and if...
At the beginning of junior year, after a semester of more or less uneventful membership, I quit the Spee. Nothing scandalous happened that made me do it; there weren’t any secret rituals gone horribly wrong, and there wasn’t one shocking event that marked my...
Layering the seriousness of an inevitable life-and-death showdown with the day-to-day absurdity of flying newspapers and nine-handed clocks is like a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down. But it’s also like, well, life. Although Rowling’s plot...
A Spoonful of Reform The long, sweet deal for Europe's sugar producers seems to be coming to an end. The European Commission has announced plans to cut the guaranteed prices paid to sugar producers by 39% over the next two years. That should shave some €1.6 billion off...
Why this vernacular habit? Benjamin Franklin called it “modest diffidence,” advising orators to avoid “the words certainly, undoubtedly, or any others that give the air of positiveness to an opinion; but rather say, I conceive or apprehend a thing to be...