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...foreign visitor might find it strange to discover a rock subculture in the Middle East, but Scrambled Eggs vocalist Haber, a former Catholic schoolboy, sees a similarity between the U.S. in rock's golden age during the 1950s and '60s and the Middle East today--sexually repressed conservative societies dominated by religion and an ideological cold war. "At the end of the day, sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll means freedom," he says...
...this, UConn’s home win last night was the first for any team in the past five matchups, as the visitor had captured the previous four. The consistently close battles between well-matched opponents are especially impressive for Harvard, as these efforts are coming against one the 2006 NCAA final four teams in the Huskies...
...Comparison shopping engines show the same trend; their most popular visitor segments tend to be young wealthy urbanites, not the middle- to lower-income Internet users that could benefit the most from savings on high-consideration purchases...
...foreign visitor might find it strange to find a rock subculture in the Middle East, but Haber, a former Catholic schoolboy, sees a similarity between rock's golden age during the 1950s and 1960s in America, and the Middle East today - sexually repressed conservative societies dominated by religion and an ideological cold war. Interviewed last week at the band's studio in Gemmayze, a formerly working-class neighborhood of garages and crumbling townhouses that's become ground zero for Beirut's young and restless, Haber places the Beirut rock scene in a wider Mideast cultural context...
...exhibit attracted more than 10,000 visitors in its first three weeks - and perhaps as many reactions. A video projection - which features footage of soldiers storming compounds and firing machine guns, all set to the sounds of Metallica's "Enter Sandman" and the Cranberries' "Zombie" - drew particularly strong criticism. "The rock music played against the film strip made it seem like a commercial," one visitor wrote on the show's uncensored message board. Sundry messages crowd the board, coming from school children, war protesters, former soldiers and friends and family of the troops...