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...better to think of America's pop-culture choices not as a monolithic State of the Union address but rather as a mix CD we make every year. The tempo and tone don't always mesh. Some of the songs have a direct message; some have emotional meaning; and some, in gimlet-eyed retrospect, make you wonder why you ever picked them in the first place (this means you, Anna Nicole). But then you play that CD back on the stereo, a few older, fatter years later. Your toe taps. A memory comes back. And you realize that in that...
Though Harvard’s defensive schemes were similar to the ones it used in the opening period, Mercer, with its up-tempo pace, found holes in the Crimson defense in the second half. The Bears outscored the Crimson, 44-33, in that second frame en route to a 44-percent shooting night...
Though the Crimson has not played NMU in recent memory, the Wildcats’ up-tempo transition style is similar to that of recent Harvard opponents Yale, BC and Maine, said Harvard captain Dominic Moore. Harvard’s experience against these teams will be key to its success against the Wildcats...
Mercer, with its up-tempo pace, found holes in the Crimson defense in the second half, even though Harvard’s defensive schemes were similar to the ones it used in the opening period. The Bears outscored the Crimson, 44-33, in that second frame en route to a 44-percent shooting night...
Much of Charmbracelet follows this pattern: Carey makes vague allusions to her recent problems while musically cannibalizing her back catalog. There are a few moments when she reveals enough to make the formula interesting, as on the playful Clown, a mid-tempo revenge song that responds to Eminem's sexual innuendo with the lines, "You should've never intimated we were lovers/When you know very well we never even touched each other." But mostly Charmbracelet feels like a hedge. There are the guest rappers (Jay-Z, Cam'ron) of Carey's late '90s hits, the chipper ballads of her multiplatinum...