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...tended hair and clothes that you just know she didn't pay for, I feel my blood start to boil. I get the primal, irrepressible urge to jump on a cross-country bus to wherever she's shooting, run up to her in the middle of a scene and kick her in the knee. And let there be no doubt that right after I bruise her shin, I will make a very bad face...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In the (K)now | 11/9/2000 | See Source »

...with sweet, rich melodies such as the biographical "Southern Kind of Life" and the emotionally honest "These Pines" are interspersed with sharper and more urgent tunes such as "Don't Talk Back" and "Last Hard Bible," countering each other in an anachronistic combination of hillbilly heartache and well-crafted kick-ass sass. The standout track is the album closer. "We're All Gonna Die Someday" reveals Chamber's youthful wisdom with lyrics such as "It hurts down here 'cos we're running out of beer/But we're all gonna die someday." Throughout, however, her vibrant voice retains a fresh, distinctive...

Author: By Arts Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Albums | 11/9/2000 | See Source »

...leading garage producers Artful Dodger, aim to provide an introduction to the garage sound. The opener, Artful Dodger's own "Woman Trouble," is enormously convincing: if listeners are initially thrown off by its weird, shuffling beats, even the most funk-deprived booties will succumb to the awesome mess of kick drums, crisp snares, fat melodic bass and sensuous vocals that soon follow. The remaining tracks mirror this musical blueprint with fairly uniform degrees of success. Even a remix of an All Saints song manages to sound fresh...

Author: By Arts Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Albums | 11/9/2000 | See Source »

...break many of the close economic, political and legal links that have grown out of years of occupation, from the Israeli cell phones that Palestinians carry at their hips to the Palestinian sweet potatoes on Israeli dinner tables. Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami says the separation plan will kick in only if Arafat declares his state unilaterally, as he threatens to do after Nov. 15. That state was supposed to be negotiated with Israel, so, Ben-Ami says, Israel will view a declaration as the end of the peace process. President Bill Clinton, scrambling to keep peace alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel's Last-Ditch Peace Plan | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...would shift the program's address from the Health and Human Services Department to the Education Department and emphasize educational pursuits like word recognition and counting over social services. The cost of this change? Zero. Bush saves his dollars for his $5 billion reading initiative, which does not kick in until kids reach kindergarten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning More, Earlier | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

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