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...final performance with the Brothers and Sisters, McFerrindescended into the audience and engaged in a series of intimate one-on-one performances with random spectators. Face to face, McFerrin would lay down a bass-line or other melodic theme, allow his unrehearsed partner to improvise, and then switch roles. In one action, McFerrin made the music accessible and approachable to all, and that is perhaps his greatest talent...

Author: By James Crawford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: McFerrin Makes Magic | 3/8/2002 | See Source »

...with the almost evenly divided House up for grabs in November, the redistricting battle is getting even more bare-knuckled this time. Democrats have to switch only six seats to retake the House. So far, from the states that have completed the redistricting, there's been little net gain for either Republicans or Democrats. But some states have yet to settle on their lines and the political battles there are growing more intense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mississippi's Congressional Battle Royale | 3/5/2002 | See Source »

However, partly because of the switch to web-based e-mail, HASCS will be modifying the way that students access e-mail via telnet programs...

Author: By Vanessa G. Henke, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: E-mail Innovations To Premier in April | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

...last and most dreadful stage of this strange condition—the complete breakdown in personal maintenance. It’ll start, I guess, with my not having time for the frilly stuff like make-up and crisp new outfits that anyone could do without anyway. Next we switch to low maintenance outfits only: jeans and big sweaters first, then sweats and house slippers. And then the hair will look a little rattier and the sweats a little more worn in. I’ll report back in two weeks with an update on my condition...

Author: By Antoinette C. Nwandu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: disjecta | 2/28/2002 | See Source »

...even worse, Celine Dion, who, as far as I can tell, is even more unhip than I am but has huge lungs with which to torture her fellow humans. I'd try, desperately, to understand why these people were up for awards, and then, defeated and dejected, I'd switch the television off and take up some less punishing task, like translating Ovid's entire oeuvre. You can see why I had just about given up on the Grammys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Grammys Like Me! | 2/28/2002 | See Source »

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