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...slowly builds upward into tenser and more earnest territory. Like “Magic,” “Up on Your Leopard, Upon the End of Your Feral Days” is not what it initially seems: what begins as a somewhat silly candy-covered synth-pop wash evolves subtly into a furious electronic symphony, and then transforms yet again into a guitar-driven tempest. Here is “Lover”’s finest moment. The album does, however, have its shortcomings. After about ninety seconds of bizarre vocal interjections and erratic drumming...
...hold down the fort or moving the entire family from town to town. But with today's preponderance of dual-career couples--80% of the labor force--it is just as often the woman's job that separates the partners. Stephanie Coontz of Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., a historian of marriage, argues that this represents a newly egalitarian attitude toward marital roles. "There's no longer the assumption that the woman immediately puts her career on hold once she gets married," says Coontz. "It's part of an avalanche of evidence that marriage is being reconstructed...
...While one shouldn’t white-wash Khatami, he certainly isn’t the hard-line renegade that Ahmadinejad is,” Gergen said...
...College administration, meanwhile, has decided to wash their hands of the matter. Last April, the Undergraduate Council proposed a Harvard College Book Information System to the Committee on Undergraduate Education, which promptly shut it down. According to former Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71, speaking to The Crimson last spring, “I didn’t think that I could financially support an effort that was in some ways in opposition to the Harvard Coop.” This near-fetishistic protectionism, which the new College administration apparently still espouses, is befuddling...
Josie Natori didn't set out to revolutionize the lingerie industry. She might easily have ended up with another business: McDonald's franchises ("They wouldn't let me open in Manhattan," Natori recalls) or antique furniture reproduction ("The chairs weighed more than I did") or even a car wash ("We would park and count the cars that went into them"). In her search, Natori, 60, who was born and raised in the Philippines but moved to New York City in 1964, was merely trying to satisfy an entrepreneurial urge that she traces back to her grandmother, who owned several businesses...