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...campus in seven-degree weather hardly makes for an enjoyable first week of classes. To add to this trauma, Harvard students recently had to face the extra challenge of trying to avoid followers of political agitator and perennial presidential candidate Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. who decided to leave their usual perch in Harvard Square to flood the area near the Science Center with bizarre pamphlets and posters...
Just in time for our annual ritualistic exchange of chocolates for sex on Feb. 14, the New York Times brings this lonely news: 51% OF WOMEN ARE NOW LIVING WITHOUT SPOUSE. The story has been thoroughly blogged, and readers have been dutifully reminded of all the usual statistics suggesting that marriage is threatened in the U.S., an abiding worry of some social commentators at least since...
...with me for a bit longer," he told the BBC's famously pugnacious interviewer John Humphrys last week. And at Downing Street, which always looks more like a film set than its screen simulacrums, people are doing their best to act out that message of business as usual. An aide reels off the day's wearying list of prime-ministerial meetings and appointments, before revealing the anguish behind this glassy efficiency in a voice lowered to a whisper: "It reminds me of the end of the Clinton era. It's a witch hunt...
...guitarist, Simon Tong (formerly of the Verve), sounds almost exactly like Graham Coxon. But the strange synths and fuzz coloring the album, courtesy of producer Danger Mouse, is fascinating at best, obnoxious at worst. It’s a half-finished Blur album, with a little more brooding than usual...