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Watching President Bush at the United Nations brought to mind the World Cup, the pinnacle event in a sport everyone knows Americans can’t play. Even after a string of upsets, an appearance at the quarterfinals, and speculation that the United States might actually win, no one was really upset when the team lost to Germany. After all, soccer actually matters to Germany...
...Brown victory comes off a string of three straight losses for Harvard, who had dropped its three previous games to nationally ranked teams—Penn State, Washington and Portland. But though the Crimson lost all three games, the team believed they provided a great prep for the Ivy season...
Since coming-to-terms is the album’s theme, the Indian wail that filled the Mutations love dirge “Nobody’s Fault But My Own” has been replaced by an array of similarly gorgeous string arrangements that are less dejected and more bittersweet. Within these also lies evidence of Beck’s own musical preferences: the near-funky bass lines and lazy drums of “Paper Tiger” are decorated in a dazzling orchestral swell a la Serge Gainsbourg. Later on, the Milky Way voyage...
...they add up to more than the sum of their parts. Missing Linx’s mundane battle rhymes sound positively apocalyptic over an ominous Mentol Nomad track, while Roberta Flack’s “Killing Me Softly” is like an aural sedative after a string of abrasive breakcore vitriol. When /rupture blends a slowed-down instrumental of Aaliyah’s “Are You That Somebody?” into that song, it’s a small revelation as Flack’s vocal exorcisms and Timbaland’s sonic architecture...
...Anthony Appiah, Rockefeller university professor of philosophy at Princeton. He is the former Carswell professor of Afro-American studies and philosophy at Harvard. I guess I wish I knew more about contemporary genetics. I’d like to have some grasp of string theory, which I don’t think I do. Also, I would love to know more languages. I know one dead language and one living language, but I don’t understand Spanish, Chinese, Urdu. There is supposed to be some wonderful poetry in Urdu, and you can’t really tell...