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...best: A Grand Don’t Come For Free by the Streets. Mike Skinner dropped what was probably the only successful second album this year, and did it with incredible panache. A narrative chronicling a day in Skinner’s life after he loses the titular thousand pounds, the album follows emotional peaks and valleys, including the counterpoint of the jubilant “Could Well Be In” and the wrenching British hit “Dry Your Eyes...
...with China. But last week, at a rally in Taoyuan county for this Saturday's legislative election, Chen was playing peacemaker. Dressed down in a blue shirt open at the collar and a beige vest splashed with party slogans in green Chinese characters, Chen asked the throng of several thousand to give his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) the majority in the legislature that it currently lacks. If he gets it, pledged Chen, he would push to resume talks with Beijing. "I'd like to end the hostility between China and Taiwan," he said, stretching out both arms and giving...
...hard to know what they would make of it today. After fighting off the likes of Madonna (who got married in the castle that was built on the original Viking site) and Robbie Williams (who celebrated his birthday there), it is highly unlikely that they would recognize their thousand-year-old home. Where once there were serfs, there are now staff, and a golf course stands on former grazing land. Such is the world of 21st century castle stays...
...expensive and time consuming,” Justin G. Hurwitz ’07, the keyboard player for the group, writes in an e-mail. “We still promote through those more traditional methods, but we also take advantage of facebook to efficiently reach nearly a thousand fans who are part of the group...
...we’re told a kennel of Yale students pulled off a massive stunt at The Game, tricking two thousand Crimson fans into holding up construction paper spelling out “WE SUCK.” Yale’s student newspaper reported the hoax Monday, and the pranksters put up a website (www.harvardsucks.org) complete with video documentation and posters for sale (way to sell out, fascists...