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...says that the group is excited to participate in Arts First because the festival allows the Kroks to sing for Harvard in a less formal setting and to engage in the sharing of music. Following Harvard’s oldest a capella group is one of its youngest. A splinter group from Collegium Musicum, Collegium Underground came together just this year.According to the group’s manager, Zachary A. Rothstein ’07, who is also a Crimson editor, this co-ed ensemble offers Collegium Musicum members the opportunity to focus on jazz and contemporary a capella. Rothstein...

Author: By Erin S. Shorenstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: An Afternoon of A Capella | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

...attempts to inveigle himself into the U.S. via the fictional Caspian splinter state of Absurdistan, only to get tangled up with the cynical local oil politics and the local dictator's foxy daughter. All the while he bemoans his fate with Nabokovian wit and efficiency--when he alludes to the "typical drabness of the one-room Soviet apartment, with the bulbous refrigerator shuddering in the corner like an ICBM before launch," you can practically smell the spoiled milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Absurdistan: From Russia, with Love | 4/30/2006 | See Source »

...shortage of suspects for the murder. Although the IRA denied killing Donaldson, former members of the group may have taken it into their own hands to extract revenge on the man they blamed for putting them in jail or sending other comrades to their deaths. Other Republican splinter groups opposed to the peace process certainly had enough motivation to do it. On the other hand, some members of Sinn Fein have implied that the same people who got Donaldson to become spy in the mid 1980s had their own reasons to silence him, since he remained a threat to divulge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will a Spy's Murder Kill Peace in Northern Ireland? | 4/5/2006 | See Source »

...products. After all, what’s the point in remixing a remix?The disappointment is astonishing, given that most of the technicians at the mixing boards are currently at the top of their game: Philly dumpster-diving prodigy Diplo, sexy French electroboys Air, and not one, but two splinter-groups from one-album wonders the Unicorns, to name a few.Two more poppy Frenchmen, Octet, steal the show by recasting bubblegum gem “Girl” as a melodramatic aria, sung at the climax of a new-age murder opera. They cut out all the lead vocals...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Guerolito | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

...Granola person are as follows: “Very Liberal” designations on their facebook.com profiles, a love of international causes of any kind, an irrational hatred of perfectly good pop music, and a penchant for clothes made out of recycled detritus.But, as with any movement, the splinter groups within the Granola faction are endless and rife with variation. I offer the following sub-groupings of our neo-hippie brethren, along with corresponding Body Odor Warning Levels (aka BOWLs):The Hiking “Nature is My Temple” Granola:If you find yourself unable to resist calling...

Author: By Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Trend is Nigh: Flavors of Style - Granola | 12/1/2005 | See Source »

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