Word: thursdaye
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What you missed: disco-folk fusion, sweet trombone playing, a funked-out "In the Mood" and good Irish beer. The Humming rocked The Burren, a traditional pub in Davis Square, last Thursday night, outgrooving the Irish band in the next room and sending fans crowding into the street for an acappella encore of "Happy Trails." If this band's name doesn't sound familiar to you now, it will be in the very near future. Playing over 80 shows a year and expecting to put out their own album this spring, The Humming is poised to hit the big time...
Little Oskar the Drummer has finally conquered the world. His creator, German author G?nter Grass, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature Thursday, with his "Tin Drum," published in 1959, cited as "one of the enduring literary works of the 20th century." "It?s an excellent award, 30 years overdue, but better late than never," says TIME literary critic Paul Gray. "?The Tin Drum? was a pioneering attempt at new fictional forms, a kind of postmodern attempt at super-realism to deal with the bizarre and ugly rise of Nazism. It was an attempt to explore history through a kind...
Remember the China syndrome? Hardly anyone does, because nuclear meltdown is no longer a major fear in the U.S. But Japan Thursday faced the worst nuclear emergency in its history, after an accident at a fuel processing plant put 14 people in the hospital and forced mass evacuations. Officials said that a nuclear reaction may still be continuing inside the Tokaimura fuel processing plant, which was evacuated after workers saw blue flames rising above a batch of fuel and complained of nausea. Radiation levels 15,000 times higher than normal were reported around the plant, the site of Japan...
Timothy McVeigh should have been charged with at least one more murder. That?s the line from the Christian Coalition, members of which were on hand Thursday as the House passed a bill that would make it a federal offense to harm a fetus while committing a federal crime. Under the coalition-backed Unborn Victims of Violence Act, McVeigh, one of the perpetrators in the Oklahoma City bombing case, would have one more offense on his rap sheet because a pregnant woman was among the casualties of the explosion. While no one can predict what will happen in the Senate...
...Slobodan Milosevic?s secret weapon may be NATO. Opposition leader Zoran Djindjic vowed Thursday to keep up daily anti-Milosevic demonstrations despite Wednesday night?s violent police crackdown. But even if the fractured opposition does manage to overcome its differences, the fact that NATO appears unable or unwilling to stop terror attacks on the territory?s remaining Serb population creates fertile ground for Milosevic. "Kosovar Serbs are frightened because nobody?s protecting them from these systematic, well-organized attacks and the culprits are never caught," says TIME Central Europe bureau reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "The alliance lacks a strategy," he adds...