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...Lights but You Were Staring Straight at Me gets a laugh on its own. Turner is particularly good at setting scenes at the top of songs--"Up rolled the riot van/ And sparked excitement in the boys/ But the policemen look annoyed/ Perhaps these are ones they should avoid"--and with each couplet he swings between disgust at and tolerance of the boozy, materialistic and louche world around him. On the standout A Certain Romance, Turner looks around the pub and begins, "Oh they might wear classic Reeboks/ Or knackered Converse/ Or tracky bottoms tucked in socks...
...whopping 250%. That suggests the company's prospective drug--invented by Bayer and licensed by deCODE--could have a correspondingly large lifesaving effect, although even if it works, it could be several years before it reaches the U.S. market. Some critics are worried that insurers and employers might avoid anyone bearing the bad gene, making discrimination even worse than it already is. Stefansson scoffs at that notion: "You guys never needed genetics to discriminate against African Americans," he says. "You've done that completely unassisted by genetic discoveries...
...wall that Harvard’s “best chance” finds itself pinned up against. For three years, the Crimson has waited for a meaningful game in February. And now the team that was three years in the making gets one last shot to avoid becoming yesterday’s “best chance.” —Staff writer Michael R. James can be reached at mrjames@fas.harvard.edu...
This fear was the topic of my thesis—propaganda and repressed youth culture. In jail, we tried to avoid political communication only to discover that everything is political: the fact that fuel is so expensive or that they like MTV more than ZTV (Zimbabwe Television). But we all joked about the difficulty of life in the cell and shared, through whispers, the telling stories that brought us there...
...Kirby’s relationship, the president has complained about the “yes-men” in University Hall.“I do think that the characters of the two men (one who enjoys a vigorous intellectual debate on every subject, and one who prefers to avoid face-to-face conflict) are so different that a productive relationship was difficult,” a professor who knows both the dean and the president wrote in an e-mail.STRUGGLES OVER REVIEWKirby’s difficulty working under Summers came into sharp relief for some professors who served...