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...children of immigrants and are given to feeling like aliens even in their native England. D'Arby was born in New York City, but found his muse after moving to Europe as a teen. It is perhaps this feeling of dislocation that gives such musicians the creative wanderlust to transcend standard pop. "The value of acts like Tricky and Portishead is that they're giving people fits as to how to classify them," says D'Arby. "Guess what? Most of the interesting aspects of life don't fit into an easily defined category." One hopes the curiosity and ambitious invention...
Fred Smith, the president of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, took a more extreme stance. He said that the United States should look beyond government regulations towards market solutions, and "transcend the bureaucratic state...
Well, a group of courageous premeds is willing to bet that pre-meds can transcend their stress-filled, petty and pedantic existences. Earlier this spring, 10 undergraduates started the Hippocratic Society, a pre-med ethics society...
...that with all the mystery surrounding his identity, Menu Man is nevertheless the one person at Harvard of whom I'm certain. So I ask myself, do I really need to know what He looks like? Would I even want to know? After all, physical appearances could never transcend what Menu Man and I have together. I wouldn't want to mar the purity and innocence of our correspondence by subjecting it to the stain of superficiality. Besides, the enigma just adds to the sex appeal. It's not just the virile way He pronounces, "Moo Goo Gai Pan" that...
...think about it, Rebecca. Right now he may seem awfully appealing. But can your relationship, or any others, persist in the face of nightly debates about what to have or where to go for dinner? Or weekly grocery shopping? Can mad passion possibly transcend daily arguments about the merits of renting or buying? Getting a loft or a duplex? Living uptown or downtown? Hardwood floors or carpeting? Whether to have kids or simply get a Labrador and a ficus tree in the garden...