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...through inhumane practices.” In addition to human rights, the national LiNK group has made assisting refugees crossing the Korean-Chinese border one of its key issues. It claims that hundreds of thousands of North Korean refugees remain in hiding in China. “LiNK maintains underground orphanages for North Korean children in China and works closely with partners in supporting shelters for abandoned children and trafficked women,” Hong, now LiNK’s executive director, wrote in an e-mail. “Among those in our shelters include women who had been...
Perhaps the most remarkable discovery: Kennewick Man had been buried deliberately. By looking at concentrations of calcium carbonate left behind as underground water collected on the underside of the bones and then evaporated, scientists can tell that he was lying on his back with his feet rolled slightly outward and his arms at his side, the palms facing down - a position that could hardly have come about by accident. And there was no evidence that animal scavengers had been at the body...
...11th of September). It's more audacious still that the Wachowskis, rather than scrubbing their script clean of 9/11 references, would emphasize the connection, proposing a dapper quasi-hero who is part Zorro (with the fancy swordplay), part Phantom of the Opera (but with a jukebox in his underground lair instead of a pipe organ) and just a smidge of Osama bin Laden (but with tastes more aesthetic than ascetic...
...called humor magazine—Sylvester earned bylines in the Boston Phoenix and the online album-reviewing site Pitchforkmedia.com.Members of the Lampoon did not return repeated phone calls and e-mails requesting comment last night.A reviewer with a distinctive style, Sylvester was known and read widely in underground music circles. He also co-founded a record company, Beekeeper Records, and invited cult indie band Exploding Hearts to perform at the Spee, an all-male Mt. Auburn Street final club.“I’ve heard a lot of people had mixed feelings about him,” said...
...lives of all these performers. Each one offers a unique reason to suck up saccharine melody, and each reason is more nuanced than “it’s fun to dance to.”ROAD TO JOYFor some, pop is a gateway drug to the musical underground. It’s practical, even if you’re past the first musical high.“I think all the music that I spend my time listening to has substance, pretty much,” says Samuel M. Zornow ’08. “Certain...