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Many on the UC never quite got over that: the vast majority of UC representatives supported Matthew J. Glazer ’06 and his running mate Clay Capp for office. With Glazer elected president but Capp overlooked in favor of Nichols, the UC leadership eventually began looking for ways to oust Nichols. When they sensed an opportunity, they struck, and were able to drive Nichols from office...

Author: By Jason L. Lurie, | Title: By Other Means: The Ouster of Ian Nichols | 5/20/2005 | See Source »

Albums are inconsiderate things. To hear them, you need an hour's worth of your crowded life, not including the time it takes to penetrate the layers of security stickers. Singles, barely sold in record stores anymore but making up the vast majority of downloads, ask for only three good minutes. Here are 10 songs guaranteed to thrill for half an hour or so. Al Green You Are So Beautiful Joe Cocker covered this song in melodrama, which makes Green's restoration effort more amazing. Producer Willie Mitchell eschews Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Songs Worth Three Minutes | 5/19/2005 | See Source »

...seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists—at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous—that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become too vast for us to cope with or even understand; we are too small and too afraid.” Let me offer this as an ideal opening sentence to any question even tangentially nudging on the Middle Ages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 5/18/2005 | See Source »

...words for the ability to connect businesses with your wallet. We will hear slightly desperate rhetoric about the reach and continuing relevance of network TV. For a brief, blissful week - at least in the words of the marketing executives - it will be 1973 again, when the broadcast networks delivered vast hordes of obedient consumers to advertisers, and cable was just something you found coiled up on the deck of a boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV Upfronts: The Desperate Search for Households | 5/16/2005 | See Source »

...goals (or die trying) in whatever order seems expedient: no more invisible barriers. Clouds of dust and smoke float up and block the sun, interfering with the ambient light--war is finally getting its fog. The chaos is astonishingly visceral: you're Joe Grunt, playing your little part in vast events that are beyond your puny ken. This is war the way Tolstoy described it, or Stendhal, or Stephen Crane, seen from the bottom up. Suddenly video games have added a couple more octaves to their emotional register...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Microsoft: Out of the X Box | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

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