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...band allowed their fans to ascribe their own monetary value to the music, asking them to pay as little or much for the CD as they saw fit. Other bands with large, loyal fan bases like Nine Inch Nails have since tried this experiment with varied levels of success. What this initiative ultimately amounts to is a kind of sentimental gratuity that fans can leave their favorite bands. Someone who gave Radiohead $10 for “In Rainbows” most likely did so out of a moral desire to reward the group for their work rather than...
...weeks from today, the euphoric event begins again. I will fill out my bracket hoping to make the correct pick for all 63 games, a hope likely to die in one of the very first games. I’ve had some moderate success in the past, getting two champions right (UConn 2004, Florida 2007) and I won a bag of candy I don’t like in my Expos class pool freshman year on the strength of six Elite Eights, two Final Fours, and UCLA in the title game. Oh yeah, I also picked Maryland...
...nuanced subtlety of the French impressionistic style with a few selections from Claude Debussy’s Preludes. It was these simple tone poems, not the virtuosic heavyweights that usually dominate any performer’s repertoire, which revealed the musical genius behind Lang’s commercial success. His interpretation of Debussy’s popular melody “The Girl with the Flaxen Hair” was ethereal but never flighty, thanks to his delicate yet pointed approach to the keyboard. Closing his eyes for most of the preludes, Lang occasionally tore himself from his musical trance...
...games are Cornell and Princeton, at home this time. We’re going to be out for revenge in [the Princeton] game, definitely.”Under the leadership of head coach Jenny Allard and co-captains Hayley Bock and Vertovez, the Crimson will try to continue its success with the same core group of players intact and what promises to be an exceptional freshman class.“It’s an ingredient of success to have strong leadership and veterans, and we have that this year,” Allard says. “We have...
...very supportive network and good team culture where people feel a part of the group,” Allard says. The captains are ultimately united in their goals for the team this season, and their leadership should prove to be the driving force behind the team’s success. “We play off each other really well, and we’re great friends, which helps a lot—to be able to talk to each other and provide a unified front to the team when we have a problem or something we need to work...