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...urgent, lazy but occasionally frenetic--that persists through 12 songs. The first of those, the endearing "Slide," breaks into a slightly askew half-speed aquatic-guitar trip with a catchy chorus and lyrics of subtle wit. "You can never give/ The finger to the blind," singer-guitarist Dean Wareham sings after an opening guitar solo, "Sometimes I act so stupid/ But you never seem to mind...
...Wareham, Chimerenga and the five other co-defendants and their spouses hold a total of 10 college and six graduate degrees. They were under surveillance by the FBI for more than a year when agents arrested them in October 1984 and found an arsenal of weapons--including sawed-off shotguns and Uzi machine guns--at several members' houses...
...just Black, but articulate and thinking and active and revolutionary," Wareham told New York magazine in a May interview. "We talk about the legitimacy of armed struggle, of armed self-defense, so if they had a composite nightmare, we probably represented that...
Chimerenga came to Harvard in 1968 when the Graduate School of Education offered him a scholarship. In that same year, Wareham entered as a freshman after attending Horace Mann High School in the Bronx. After graduating cum laude from Harvard, he went to Columbia University Law School...
...undergraduate, Wareham worked to institute the Afro-American studies program. Wareham first met Chimerenga at a 1968 meeting of 200 Black students on campus, which Chimerenga organized to unify the various Black organizations...