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...other compelling aspect of mascot craziness and odd name-changing comes in the urban legends that develop. For instance, I have no idea why Akron is named after some weird form of Kangaroo—they are apparently called the Zips—but there has to be some amazing story behind that mascot. Legends like that become campus folklore...
...authorize limited eavesdropping in the U.S. without court approval. But the President poked fun at himself for the rarity of his news conferences, bridled at a reporter's suggestion that he was assuming "unchecked power" during wartime, and reminded everyone who was in charge when April Ryan of American Urban Radio Networks asked a double-barreled question. Bush seems to like Ryan, who reaches a largely African-American audience and occasionally asks about the President's faith-based initiatives. "Thank you for violating the multiple-part question rule," Bush said playfully. "I didn't know there...
...Cramer is a study in contradictions. He learned from liberal thinkers and protested against Nixon in college, but says he loved working with his thesis advisor, former Shattuck Professor of Urban Government Edward Banfield, whom he calls “reactionary” and who was later memorialized by Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, former Harvard and current Pepperdine University Professor James Q. Wilson, and Weatherhead University Professor Samuel P. Huntington. Cramer calls himself a McCain Democrat and says that money won’t make you happy—that it?...
...voice-samples a counterpart robo-voice companion. Electronic highlanders Boards of Canada make “Broken Drum” genuinely wistful and anguished, if a bit too long and slow. Anticon post-hoppers Subtle take the blues-horror of “Farewell Ride” into the urban jungle, and are smart enough to add some new vocals, in the most drastic remix strategy on the album. Homelife gets an honorable mention for having the balls to turn the guitar-crunch of “E-Pro” into a new-wave hoedown, which...
...urban bard shuffles through a series of post-industrial pop-up books, from automotive rustoramas to garish circuses, unleashing his barbed tongue on esoterica like Dead Kennedys song titles and spaghetti westerns...