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...obsolete medium. Who wants to be forced into a cookie-cutter genre (college rock or classic rock or oldies) and asked to love everything in it? On the other hand, it must also be at least a year since I've had the thrill of discovering a toe-tapping tune from an unknown artist completely by accident. This is what happens when you enter the world of Napster and MP3s. You tend to play it safe, downloading artists you know or songs you remember from childhood. It eventually gets stale...
...nixed rap and country, gave Top 40 a low priority and high marks to electronica, jazz, R. and B., classical and old-school rock. I named my station "Taylor Radio: Home of Tasteful Music." And what did Sonicnet choose for Taylor Radio's inaugural tune? Electric Youth, by that forgettable '80s pop singer Debbie Gibson. Ouch...
...Next, the bus heads off to a mountain area called Sugar Loaf (the tour guide helpfully informs us that it's so named because early explorers thought it "looked like a loaf of sugar"). I gradually tune her out and I try to use what I've seen to come up with a deep think. When Jobim helped launch the bossa nova boom in 1956, it was considered a radical new style, upsetting to the samba-ruled old order. The "new way" (one translation of "bossa nova") was smooth, stripped-down music, but full of strange harmonies and unusual syncopation...
Following a non-conference tune-up with Hartford later in the month, Harvard will begin a stretch that includes a road trip to Cornell and Columbia before a critical homestand with perenially league powerhouses Pennsylvania and Princeton on February 9th and 10th, respectively...
Rumsfeld's report proved contagious. By 1999 the CIA had changed its tune and was echoing him. But the agency had to bend the rules to do it: no longer did a foe have to be capable of reaching the 48 contiguous states to be deemed a threat to the U.S.; Alaska and Hawaii were added, putting the territory to be defended far closer to North Korea. The CIA began assuming enemy missiles could be fired without years of testing. Most critically, it stopped predicting what was "most likely" to happen in favor of what "could" happen...