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...Within the hallowed confines of Harvard University’s common rooms… amidst the cozy complacency of over-stuffed sofas and Oriental rugs, the twenty-first century has rushed in and rudely taken over. Art history has been debunked and artistic conventions rewritten. Something is afoot at Harvard—listen to the whimpering yelp of the underdog howling in the yard. Watch anger turn into art. Rejoice as the dog slips its leash and jumps up growling ‘Oh Bondage, Up Yours...
...never seems like eclecticism for its own sake. Amidst the cacophony, Scofield is still the most important element; with rhythmic onus shifted elsewhere, he’s given considerable freedom to improvise. His playing emerges cleanly from the mix and runs fast, daring and wide, forging a raw sound that’s simultaneously unsettling and engrossing. But his best moments, as in “Ideofunk” and “Tomorrow Land,” are when he slows down his fingers and mellows his sentiments. Eclectic as the day is long and with virtuosity to spare...
President Bush looked like a man who'd finished a marathon when he signed the $26.5 billion education bill into law Tuesday morning: exhausted and proud. And with good reason: after five months of partisan bickering in Congress, the President realized his number one domestic priority amidst a crowd of onlookers at an Ohio public school. "As of this hour, America's schools will be on a new path of reform and a new path of results," Bush said at Hamilton High School, near Cincinnati. "From this day forward, all students will have a better chance to learn, to excel...
Committee chairs—amidst much gushing praise—handed out candy, awards and other gifts to their underlings...
...weeks ago I found something surprising in my door box. Amidst the usual Coop advertisements and coupon specials was a blue stapled packet, a facebook for the residents of the apartment buildings at 10 and 20 DeWolfe Street. At first, the facebook struck me as odd. I had already received my House facebook, which dutifully listed me as a resident of Dunster and called my room number DeW 31—as though truncating the “olfe” from my address would make it appear as though I lived somewhere between D and F entryway. And, despite...