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Furthermore, although all proctors have some Harvard connection, many are not graduates of the College and are unfamiliar with its classes, concentrations, professors and archaic regulations. As a result, proctors’ academic advising has tended to be hit-or-miss; some first-years get lucky, others don’t. An R.A. system would relieve the advising pressure on proctors by giving much of the general college advising over to undergraduate R.A.’s. In this way, the line between advising and discipline would be drawn more firmly, and first-years would be provided with more comprehensive...
...someone unfamiliar with the Wesley Willis canon, it may seem strange that this 350-plus pound, paranoid schizophrenic who sings such timeless classics as “I Whupped Batman’s Ass,” “Rock and Roll McDonalds” and “Cut That Mullet” easily sold out T.T. the Bear’s on Friday, Sept. 14. Willis is, by any reasonable measure of musical talent, completely talentless. The songs—all of approximately the same length and same musical infrastructure, consist of strung-together expletives and choruses...
Listening to music in an unfamiliar tongue can be more thrilling than listening to a song whose lyrics are instantly intelligible. Because if you can connect with another person beyond lyrics, beyond language, then you have engaged in a kind of telepathy. You have managed to escape the mundane realm of ordinary communication and entered a place where souls communicate directly. It's cooler than instant messaging. Cherif Mbaw, 33, is a Senegalese singer-guitarist living in Paris; the songs on his brilliant CD Kham Kham are in his native Wolof. But when Mbaw, with his beatific tenor, soars into...
...step outside the borders of the world's hegemon--to Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America--and you find a different scene: namely, musicians and an audience who really have something to bitch about. Protest music in other parts of the world is complicated by a dynamic unfamiliar to Western listeners. American political music is traditionally an individual's complaint about the surrounding society. Standing on a street in Lagos or on a beach in Brazil, or staring down an invading army of Pokemon and Britneys, however, it can be equally as radical to speak out for your society...
While the men serve ace after numbing ace, the women have a powerful game that still allows for some volley. CBS commentator and former player Mary Carillo says of a recent tournament, "They were playing a brand of tennis that I was totally unfamiliar with. The pounding was so concussive and the running back and forth so athletic--everything about that match was so much more ballistic than I could have scared up. I played another sport...