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...indie rock scene that followed in hardcore’s wake brought a new accessibility to a previously confrontational subculture, and it didn’t take long for the money to follow. Today, sophisticated delivery mechanisms like “as-hip-as-thou” promoters, trendy CMJ (College Music Journal) festivals in NYC, Pitchfork Media, and a whole heavenly host of scene architecture means that it’s easier than ever for patch-toting suburbanites to stay “scene...

Author: By Will B. Payne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Farewell to ‘Hardcore’ Scene | 10/19/2006 | See Source »

...whom are estimated to be in dire straits; traditionalists and reformers."We thought we were the king of carrots. We just didn't see the others coming," admits Jean-Franois Bruere, who heads a 220-member regional cooperative. "We never bothered about consumers. Now we're beginning to wake up." The shakeout is bearing fruit: after dropping 20% over the past five years, Bordeaux wine exports are rising again, led by the top producers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Spill | 10/16/2006 | See Source »

...unprovoked war with Iraq under false pretenses-a war that has cost tens of thousands of U.S. and Iraqi lives and is sure to cost many more. The media were asleep at the switch during the run-up to that war and appear to be repeating the same mistake. Wake up, America. Don't let it happen again. Tad Hardee Afton, Virginia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 10/16/2006 | See Source »

Most of all, she possessed an abiding sense of wonder, a reverence for life and its precious, transitory nature that could properly be described as devotional. Sometimes, as I was growing up, she would wake me up in the middle of the night to have me gaze at a particularly spectacular moon, or she would have me close my eyes as we walked together at twilight to listen to the rustle of leaves. She loved to take children - any child - and sit them in her lap and tickle them or play games with them or examine their hands, tracing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barack Obama: My Spiritual Journey | 10/16/2006 | See Source »

...wake of the assassination, as suspicions fall on a Syrian man, now President Cheney suspends most civil liberties and itches to invade Syria. To leftists, a government that grounds its policies in paranoia may not seem like fantasy. For others, there's fascination in the whodunit that Range weaves with his fictional talking heads from the Bush White House, the Chicago cops and the FBI. But the killer's ID takes a backseat to the infernal cleverness of the enterprise. D.O.A.P. has a surface plausibility as seductive as a good political campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Poli Sci-Fi | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

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