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...political sidestep, and it sits very awkwardly with the song and the album as a whole. On “California English” the group for some reason chooses to auto-tune Koenig’s voice, with terrible results. Closer “I Think Ur A Contra” is easily the least interesting song on the album. The mournful strings that enter halfway through strike completely the wrong tone, and, like “Holiday,” the song rather awkwardly references political events—the Nicaraguan resistance that gives the album its title?...

Author: By Chris R. Kingston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Vampire Weekend | 2/2/2010 | See Source »

...school has 1,500 students grades 1-12. If something happens, says Atiq ur-Rahman, a chemistry teacher, the school is ill equipped to protect its students. "We don't even have a security guard equipped with weapons," he says. He says he can't handle a dangerous situation and that the students and staff feel vulnerable. If a suicide bomber targeted the school, "we could only request him not to explode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pakistani Taliban's War on Schoolchildren | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...Ur-Rahman, the chemistry teacher, has a list of ideas to beef up security, ranging from hiring more trained security guards to adding CCTV cameras, but he doesn't expect any of them to happen because the school can't pay for them and the government isn't willing to pick up the tab, he says. "It shouldn't put the [responsibility for] funding on the college for everything," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pakistani Taliban's War on Schoolchildren | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...they went to New Jersey to trace calls routed through a U.S.-based internet phone service. The Indian government has presented several dossiers of evidence to Pakistani authorities to prosecute defendants there. On Wednesday, an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan indicted seven people for planning the attacks, including Zaki ur Rehman Lakhvi, a leader of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the Pakistan-based Islamist group and the suspected mastermind of the attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Year After the Massacre, a Trial Plods On | 11/26/2009 | See Source »

Five years later, Annie returns with “Don’t Stop,” an album that’s been plagued by repeated delays and tracklist changes. “I Know UR Girlfriend Hates Me,” which was originally in the running to be the first single of the album, has since been relegated to a bonus disc (not such a tragedy, since it features a throbbing bassline and perfectly breathy vocals and still manages to be vaguely annoying). More inexplicably discarded is “Anthonio,” a trance...

Author: By Daniel K. Lakhdhir, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Annie | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

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