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...these subtle shifts in style--bitterness traded for objectivity, a new commitment to songfulness--differentiate this album from previous ones. The Red Thread is basically another Arab Strap album. Arab Strap consistently produces sad, relaxing music. It is spare and, despite its obsession with post-coital anxiety, satisfying and wise. The band takes up common themes that usually inspire loud, angry rock and treats them delicately, like craftsman, with mature, objective description. Arab Strap has dignified the "songs about fucking" genre...

Author: By Benjamin E.lytal, | Title: Fear, Loathing | 3/16/2001 | See Source »

While Lichten says he doesn't think it would be wise to let people use free weights late at night, Illingworth envisions all-night access to workout equipment. In any case, Lichten doesn't think it would be a problem to shut off certain areas of the building if necessary...

Author: By David C. Newman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Open All Night: College Ponders Extending Hours | 3/16/2001 | See Source »

...allocate fund for this end, students shouldn't expect new buses to roll in any time soon. Because extra buses and drivers are needed for only a few hours a day, investing large sums of money in this area may not be cost effective, making it unlikely that wallet-wise administrators will dip into the University's coffers...

Author: By Lauren E. Baer, | Title: The Thin White Line | 3/16/2001 | See Source »

...interesting tutors who live in my House. But the residential tutorial system should, in my opinion, provide more than good meal-time chats. Unless the system can be reinvigorated in such a way as to better justify devoting so many precious resources to the cause, the College would be wise to look to tutors first in the quest for more room in the Houses...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, | Title: Downsize the Tutors | 3/14/2001 | See Source »

...technological advance. Harvard should help to lead a worldwide revolution in higher education, to ensure not just our own quality of education, but to help Africa, Asia and Latin America to foster world-class institutions to help build their own societies. It can do this through advocacy, through wise use of donor funding for international projects and by fostering far more active networks of international scholarship...

Author: By Jeffrey D. Sachs, | Title: Becoming a Global University | 3/13/2001 | See Source »

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