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Pitchfork has been publishing "best-of" lists for years (their annual singles and album wrap-ups are especially popular) so it seems natural that they'd turn their penchant for classifying and cataloging music into a book. The Pitchfork 500 uses 42 critics to cover 30 years of music, from 1977 punk to 2006 crunk, and all the starry-eyed, acoustic acts in between...
...Nirvana: "Smells like Teen Spirit," 1991 "It's the Song that Broke Punk, the very incantation about self-despising entertainment that turned a dead-end Aberdeen kid into a supernova, the very last rock song everyone could rally around. (Check out the video of its first public performance on the With the Lights Out DVD; as soon as the drums kick in, the whole room learns how to levitate.) But the closer you listen, the more it sounds like straight pop. That four-power-chord sequence that never ever changes? It's got the rhythm from Boston's "More Than...
...ADITO strives to use resources available at Harvard to aid microfinance institutions without the infrastructure and financial support of larger networks, in turn helping to lift individuals out of poverty...
...elected official and one advocacy or community service worker. Named after a president remembered for his youth, the award has a similarly youthful twist—only people under the age of 40 are eligible. “The goal of this is to show people that before they turn 40 they can make a difference in politics and public service in their communities,” said Christian B. Flynn, the IOP’s director of special projects and conferences. In addition to the chance to honor young public servants, the creation of the award also presented...
...terms of sheer self-interest. This report does so deftly, mostly eschewing wonkiness in favor of stressing common bonds. Its series of "modest, pragmatic recommendations" are couched to show that the U.S. and Latin America are natural bedfellows. It's not that we have a moral obligation to turn the other cheek when Hugo Chavez dubs George Bush a "devil," or when pockets of America inaccurately assign blame for U.S. unemployment levels on Latin migrants. It's that doing so will, for example, help both parties weather the global economic crisis. Some of these recommendations (like the U.S. pivoting...