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...Moldova Election Triggers Protests Allegations of vote-rigging in the Communist Party's April 5 parliamentary election victory spurred more than 10,000 people to mass in Chisinau, the capital of Europe's poorest country. Coordinating via Twitter and text messages, protesters stormed government buildings and clashed with police. Nearly 200 were arrested. President Vladimir Voronin accused Romania of conspiring to foment unrest--a charge Bucharest denied...
...reference to some Florentine poet I’d never heard of. It would even allow me to take a break from talking to watch “David after Dentist.” But, now, trapped in the actual world where remarks were not merely lines of text to be answered or ignored at will, I stared helplessly into my salad, hoping some form of witty discourse would manifest itself on the kale with cranberry dressing. Somewhere faintly behind me I heard the Lowell bells tolling the death knell of the art of conversation...
...surface, this seems fine. After all, this is the heyday of the chronic oversharer. Everyone talks all the time, regardless of whether anyone listens. We Tweet, we Facebook, we Gchat, we blog, we text. We share every thought, significant or un, from the moment we switch on our iPhones in the morning to the instant we sit down face to face with an actual person. The difference between face-to-face conversation and any other medium of communication is simple: No distractions are permitted. Fran Lebowitz once remarked that “the opposite of talking isn?...
...think we’re pretty different, but I can see where the comparison comes from. 12. FM: I’ll ask you a question I was asked in the class Music 1a here at Harvard: “To what extent is a musical work dependent on text to have meaning?”EM: Um, not at all whatsoever. It totally depends on the work obviously. A Bob Dylan song without the text is different then a Bob Dylan song with the words in it. But obviously there’s a very long tradition of music...
...headline and text of the April 8 news article "Red Sox Ticket Lottery Goes Awry" incorrectly stated that the ticket sales were performed by lottery. In fact, seniors were e-mailed three links from which they could purchase the tickets...