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...what’s the future of “garage” rock? The past year has seen the White Stripes ascend to ubiquitous rock-god eminence, but most critics have praised their album Elephant outside the context of the movement. So for many of the revival’s diehards, the great white hope is Room On Fire, the Strokes’ sophomore effort. Crashing into stores on October 28, the disc arrives under the intense scrutiny of an industry still unsure about the genre’s staying power. A number-one debut could mean new life...
...book is now widely recognized as a fraud. Baruch Kimmerling (of the Hebrew University) and Joel S. Migdal, in their authoritative study, Palestinians: The Making of a People, published by Harvard University Press, observe that Peters’s book is “based on materials out of context, and on distorted evidence,” and, citing my own conclusion that the book “is the most spectacular fraud ever published on the Arab-Israeli conflict,” report that “similar evaluations were expressed by notable historians” in Israel...
What of seeing the man here in the U.S, in this setting? “It was interesting to see him in the elevated context,” Kubik says. “It wasn’t necessarily a bad thing to see him here but it was weird to see him…because it was sort of different from the general Polish ideal...
Thapa says she knows her constrained upbringing and early curfew may sound bizarre to American students, but that it made perfect sense in the context of Nepali society...
Cornell Dean of Admission Richard R. Geiger said his school’s admissions committee considers the GPA in the context of what college the applicant attended...