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Senseless death seems to have become a recurring theme around the Ivy League. Only a couple of days after Yale pharmacology student Annie Le's body was found on the day she was supposed to get married, Sylvia Bingham, a recent Yale graduate who was passionate about social justice, died in a bike accident in Cleveland. As evidenced by the string of quotes that the Yale Daily News threw together, their reporting attention was still focused on Le. Warren Schor, a 20-year-old Cornell junior, also recently died of swine...
...become more homogenized and generic,” he said. “Now it’s like going anywhere else in the country.” Like New Jersey? Lambert referred to the current state of the Square as an “academic theme park,” catering primarily to Cambridge’s heavy tourist industry rather than serving the needs of the Harvard community. Despite their opinions about the state of the Square today, both Lambert and Manning said that the book brought back fond memories of the older days in Harvard Square. That...
...relatively short period after reunification - stability, democracy, prosperity - paradoxically highlights its failings, the sections of society that have been excluded from the success story. Berlin has memorials everywhere, the earnest expression of modern Germany's desire to acknowledge its difficult history. Yet for every memorial, there's also a theme-park rendition of the past. At Potsdamer Platz you can have your picture taken with smiling "border guards" next to remounted Wall panels, decorated with faux graffiti on their eastern faces. "It's disgusting," says Knabe. "And it makes harmless something far from harmless." (Read: "The Battle For Berlin...
...large painting hangs in Abdullah's drawing room. It is a variation on the traditional Persian theme of a Sufi master sitting on a rock, jesting with his loving disciples. In this canvas, though, the turbaned Sufi teacher is replaced by Masood and his disciples are several scruffy-looking guerrillas plus Abdullah, who stands out, neatly combed, with the hint of a halo. As a military man, Masood understood that in Afghanistan, political disputes are often settled by force. This is a lesson passed on to his disciple Abdullah and one, he says, that Karzai should learn, too. "Karzai blames...
...Apocalypse Please.” Once in a great while, as with their cover of “Feeling Good,” a curve ball might crop up, but for the most part, Muse sing about one thing: the end of the world.A theme that big requires music of a similar scale to prop it up. For Muse, that means crunching guitar riffs and driving base lines overlaid with Matt Bellamy’s operatic, choirboy-gone-bad falsetto. When all these elements come together, Muse songs can be sublime slices of ominous, oddly euphoric prog rock; when they...