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...Hljómalind,” which has been known for the past seven years as “Rokklagið” (“The Rock Song”), remains true to its working title. The song, which combines a traditional pop structure with sudden uplifting outbursts, comes across as a mixture of “Hoppípolla” and “Njósnavélin.” “Í Gær,” which was featured in the trailer for “Heima...
...human heart does not like surprises. In the month after 9/11, incidents of dangerous heart rhythms in cardiac patients around New York City more than doubled. After a major earthquake in Taiwan in 1999, hospitalization for heart attacks skyrocketed around the epicenter. Even an isolated, private event - the sudden death of a spouse, for instance - can bring on grief so severe that sometimes our hearts, quite literally, break...
...Bush Republicans. "A lot of times at my rally, I say, 'We're diverse. We even have some Republicans,'" he jokes. (His largest Meetup.com group gathers in liberal Austin, Texas; another sizable one is in San Francisco.) And he isn't sure where all this sudden support will lead...
...turn for the better since residents received their eviction notices in May. Xia says she confronted the developer and brought evidence that proper legal procedures hadn't been followed, arguing that the permission granted by the city government for the project was therefore invalid. Soon after, there was a sudden change of attitude. The range of the project was scaled back so that it will now involve a smaller, six-story building to be sited on the edge of the hutong. Other buildings taken over by the developer (at a price that is still being negotiated) will merely be renovated...
Even with Harvard’s sudden preponderance of Red Sox fans, turnout in campus JCRs was surprisingly lackluster for this year’s baseball playoffs. But, really, who has time to watch a whole baseball game nowadays? Especially as national networks take over for playoff broadcasts, games are getting so long that they rarely end on the same day they began. Major League Baseball should be happy that its postseason can inspire solidarity among even casual observers (the cons of the “bandwagon” aside). But when fandom requires such a time commitment, it scares...