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RJD2 may be following in some illustrious footsteps as a DJ-auteur, but seldom will you hear an album that as adeptly does what only a DJ can do: seamlessly meld disparate styles and epochs into a whole that is far more than the sum of its parts...
Simple reasoning dictates that the Z-list does not simply help legacy students, but also hurts others—the competition for spots at a place like Harvard is a zero-sum game, and for every under-qualified legacy that is allowed in via the Z-list, another student’s chance to come here is eliminated...
...happened to Jeffrey Archer, the best-selling novelist and former Conservative Party deputy chairman, who in 1987 won ?500,000 from Express Newspapers for allegations that he had slept with a prostitute. Archer, now serving a four-year sentence for perjury in the case, last week finished repaying that sum plus damages, costs and interest. Former Tory cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken also served time for perjuring himself during a libel action he brought against the Guardian, which had accused him of accepting gifts. By 1999 Aitken was bankrupt, his legal bill still unpaid. Since Major's libel actions never came...
...album’s title alludes to a search for the explosive in weird combinations of tracks: sounding like they always belonged together, 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...
...President Bush continues to demand that the UN take a tougher stand on Iraq, warning that failure to do so would liken it to the League of Nations - an ineffectual post World War I talk-shop boycotted by the U.S. But the United Nations is nothing more than the sum of its parts, and it is the member states - particularly the "Permanent Five" members of the Security Council granted veto power at the end of World War II - that will have to be persuaded. That process may take longer, and offer Saddam Hussein more wiggle room, than Washington would have...