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...kind of day-worker center that the Minutemen target is an unusual bureaucratic creation made possible by loopholes in the immigration and tax codes. Cities with big illegal-immigrant populations have been setting up such centers lately to lend some organization to what had been an underground marketplace. At the centers, laborers can drop in and earn from $7 to $10 an hour doing jobs such as construction and landscaping. The law does not require the day-labor centers to check the legal status of workers. It allows employers to hire them without informing federal and state agencies...
...rockers The Lovetones at 9:50. Fellow psychedelic bands Hopewell and The Soft Explosions, both from New York City, will perform at 10:45 and 11:40, respectively. T.T. the Bear’s Place. $8. (KF)John Cale & Band. Influential and innovative John Cale, formerly of the Velvet Underground, will perform at the Middle East with the Twinemen. The Middle East Downstairs. 7 p.m. 18+. Tickets available from the Middle East box office or through Ticketmaster. $25. (PRC) Wednesday, Nov. 23Sweetfist, Alchemilla, Gavin Castleton, and Plan 17. These four acts promise a diverse night of alternative music ranging from...
...this adaptation, directed by Adam G. Zalisk ’07, the incidental music does not draw from period music but rather taps the tense isolation of bands like Interpol and The Velvet Underground. Though the music differs from earlier presentations of the play, the sentiments evoked remain the same. The sense of disconnect and longing that we see in Konstantin’s failed creative struggle is still reflected in the modern rock bands, who seek in their dark music and experimental lyrics the same “new forms” that Konstantin attempts to construct...
...technician to Bob Marley ("Get up, stand up; Stand up for your rights!"). He has a beguilingly playful quality as an author, too. At the International Friendship Exhibition, he's shown thousands of foreign gifts to North Korea's founder, the late Kim Il Sung, all housed underground to withstand nuclear attack. Delisle sketches a few scenes that highlight the absurdity of a friendship exhibition in an atomic bunker, but stops short of committing all the details to paper. "There's ... an armored vehicle from Stalin, another from Mao, three fabulous Russian cars from...
...million estimate. The increased cost is expected to contribute to a deficit for FAS this year, according to projections.Costs also rose as Harvard modified its plans to reflect community demands. For example, to minimize the visible size of CGIS, more than 40 percent of the space is underground, Cobb said.“The cost of the building reflects the things the University needed to do to make the project a good neighbor for the community,” Cobb said. “I would like to believe that it was worth what it cost.”Knafel...