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British rock impresario and Africa aid promoter Bob Geldof, a.k.a. "Saint Bob," was back in the headlines this past week after blowing his stack at the BBC for a story it aired alleging that Ethiopian rebels had diverted 95% of the $100 million in Ethiopian famine relief raised in the mid-1980s - much of it by Geldof's iconic Band Aid concert...
Lowell certainly does not stack up to houses like Mather when it comes to unbridled House pride. But to some degree, that seems to come from a belief that Lowellians have no need to prove how great their house is. Why make a video for housing day when it could always look silly—doesn’t everyone want to be in Lowell anyway...
...colony Yaddo, trying to write the opening with the burning of Smyrna in 1922 without having done my research. But it just sounded so false. I was desperate; I thought I had to give [“Middlesex”] up, so I wandered downstairs where there was a stack of books left for anyone’s use on the table. One was Smyrna 1922. I picked it up, went back to my room to read it, and started writing again...
...TheNation.com denouncing supporters of Andrew Joseph Stack, the man who flew a plane into a Texas building that houses IRS offices...
These slow-turning narrative gears gives you time to notice Fuqua's lack of subtlety - as the camera panned over a stack of money for what had to be the fifth time, the preview audience I was with tittered - and his love of blood. It's not enough to be gunned down in this movie; you must cough up blood as you die, a gently burbling cascade that connects with whatever goop you've got coming out of your head. By the time the last corpse slumped to the ground it started to seem almost rhythmic: Bang bang, burble burble...