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People shop daily at an indoor market in the center of town. Amidst the whirl of reeling flies and screaming children, individuals bargain for just-killed, unplucked chickens and freshly-baked pan dulce (sweet bread) and giant bags of beans. Young street boys who want to sell you candy or shine your shoes approach you continuously. You see indigenous women dragging overflowing bundles of produce, while they have babies strapped to their chest and suckling at the breast...
Last Friday, Pforzheimer House and the Undergraduate Council showcased Harvard's own in the Springfest Battle of the Bands. The chosen, selected to compete by some mysterious and no doubt complicated process involving a whirl of demos and referrals, were: Putney Swope, usagipop, the Mode Mode and 98%. Despite a few false starts and technical difficulties ranging from a broken guitar string to an impertinent drum machine, the show moved quickly from set to set. Each band played up to a half-hour of selections. With a range that spanned from noise rock to soul classics, it would have been...
...Jason Leigh is playing Sally Bowles in the acclaimed Broadway revival of Cabaret. Nicole Kidman is about to take the town by storm in David Hare's The Blue Room. Christian Slater, Toni Braxton and Holly Hunter are among the other film and recording stars currently giving Broadway a whirl...
...year-old mother, who has a heart condition and diabetes and was living all alone on a remote farm five hours away. Then Comes learned that HP was offering telecommuting as an option to its employees. She told her boss she would like to give that elective a whirl. She struck a deal to work three weeks a month from the family farm in Garberville, Calif., and one week from her Mountain View office; then she relocated with her husband and daughter. It was, she confesses, the best idea she'd had in a long time...
Bright light flash, birthday cakes smolder with the last remnants of a wish and Jammin' 94.5 blasts from the DJ booth as kids whirl around the skating rink unsuccessfully avoiding all that comes into their paths...