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...loathed him on principle. Let me explain: he's charismatic, confident, talented, tall, young, handsome and has lots of hair. The press release issued by his publicist describes him as "debonair with a touch of degenerate dandy." He describes his sound on his MySpace page as "Beck via Queen and Elton John and a touch of Rufus W.[ainwright]." He appears to be having fun. Did I mention the full head of hair? I'd been given an advance copy of Life in Cartoon Motion, Mika's debut album due Feb. 5, but I'd been reluctant to play...
...images, relayed via the Internet, shocked even human rights activists well aware of such abuses. "The video is very traumatic and powerful," says human rights activist Aida Seif El Dawla, of the Nadeem Center for the management and rehabilitation of victims of violence in Cairo. "You are watching real rape," she adds, explaining that when she started mapping incidents of police torture back in 1993 she realized that the practice was widespread all across the country. "To read and to hear is one thing, but to see is extremely shocking," she says...
Piotr C. Brzezinski ’07 Associate editorial chair Announcing his return via a CUE reminder e-mail, Larry Summers inspires skyrocketing student participation, as well as a subsequent faculty CUE boycott led by Judith Ryan—and suddenly the January Faculty meeting is reinstated...
...Steven Aftergood, director of the Project of Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists and writer of the blog Secrecy News doesn't buy that theory. "I just think they're naive," says Aftergood, who was contacted by Wikileaks via e-mail in late December to join the site's advisory board. "They have a very idealistic view of the nature of leaking and its impact. They seem to think that most leakers are crusading do-gooders who are single-handedly battling one evil empire or another." Aftergood declined their offer...
...repeating the same string of nonsense syllables, changing her intonation on cue. When a smiling cartoon face pops up on the screen in front of her, she tries to sound happy. When a frowning face pops up, she sounds sad. And then, again on cue, she falls silent, listening via a headphone as an actress runs through a similar da-da-da-da-da routine...