Word: thorns
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They get their name from a sign outside a furniture store: "For all your bedroom needs, everything but the girl." They couldn't have chosen a better name, because that is exactly what one likes about this album, everything but the you-know-who. Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt firs came out in 1982 with a jazz-pop sound, and people kind of liked them then. Now, numerous covers, one big Todd Terry remix club hit ("Missing"), one milestone album (Walking Wounded), several style shifts and too many years later, they hit out with a diffused house album that...
Coverage of the original impertinent comments eclipsed a summer filled with positive news for the department's crime-fighting efforts. Rape is down 36 percent so far this year. There are fewer robberies, fewer assaults, and no murders. Street robberies, long a thorn in the side of patrol officers, were down 16 percent through June...
Total crime on Harvard's Cambridge and Boston campuses has declined more than 21 percent since 1997, including a nearly 30 percent drop in bike thefts, long the most persistent thorn in the side of campus law enforcers...
Total crime on Harvard's Cambridge and Boston campuses has declined more than 21percent since 1997, including a nearly 30 percent drop in bike thefts, long the most persistent thorn in the side of campus law enforcers...
Indeed this sort of mythic lore about the law school has been a thorn in the side of HLS administrators for more than two decades. Thanks in part to commercially-successful works like One L. by Scott F. Turow (HLS '78), or The Paper Chase, a book-turned-movie about the darker side of HLS, Harvard has struggled with the notion that one of its most prized graduate schools is less than perfect...