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...taxes or his resolve to take out Saddam Hussein. That has given the President a weird advantage when he decides to change course, as he has on occasion throughout his tenure. There is no attempt to explain his turnabouts, no ruminations on the meaning of is. Bush does not utter the phrase, "What I meant to say was ..." The sheer size of his reversals makes them, by some political alchemy, seem like acts of principle by a fearless Executive unafraid of bold actions, including bold retreats...
...utter immediacy is key. For Delay, simply making music that resembles house isn’t enough. Here he does away with the sublteties of Vocalcity altogether, bringing every single element into the foreground. The vocalists hover in front of the speakers; the textures glisten with superhuman perfection; the percussion bangs harder and the low-end feels like being hugged tightly. Listening to The Present Lover is an hour-long rush up the spine, with eyes wide open...
...don’t really have any particular traditions of my own. In fact, I’ve been known to walk under ladders and utter the name of that Scottish Shakespearean tragedy backstage, so I guess I’m not particularly superstitious either...
...days, like a parent complaining about his kid’s music. A small dose of MTV or listening to the radio usually relieves such concerns pretty quickly, though, and I’m convinced that the decade since his death has, in an almost objective sense, been utter crap for music...
...that giving indiscriminately, as the gift committee suggests, ensures that Harvard caters to “the priorities of [the College’s] students.” Only the threat of unsatisfied alums refusing to contribute can do that—and indeed, the College’s utter lack of responsiveness on a host of issues suggests that many student “priorities” are simply ignored as the cash keeps cascading in. There is no student center. No libraries are open late at night. Harvard’s vertical dormitories stifle socializing, and there...