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...idea of charity records began with the Beatles. Or, rather, with some Beatles. Following the breakup of the Fab Four, George Harrison helped organize 1971's Concert for Bangladesh, the first star-studded event of its kind. Proceeds from the concert's live triple album went to UNICEF. Paul McCartney followed suit with a 1979 collaboration, cheekily dubbed Rockestra, for the victims of Pol Pot's purges in Cambodia. The first certified charity smash didn't arrive, however, until 1984, when Band Aid--a British and Irish supergroup that included Sting, Bono and George Michael--recorded "Do They Know...
...these cases, it didn't take a Mad Man to invent the sounds, infuse them with meaning and then play them over and over until the subjects internalized them. Rather, the sounds already had meaning and thus triggered a cascade of reactions: hunger, thirst, happy anticipation...
...bipartisan victory. Along such lines, the media has covered Mass. Senator Scott Brown’s reach across the aisle to support the bill as though his actions were notable. However, voting in favor of such a relatively insignificant piece of legislation does not make Brown a maverick; rather, it highlights the unacceptably polarized state of the Senate today...
...We’re trying to] feed off each other rather than playing individually, because that’s what a team does,” Rosekrans said. “We’re trying to get some solidarity going...
Your best friend is crying. Your roommates are either screaming at each other or giving you passive-aggressive stares. Meanwhile, you're still pondering whether you'd rather just give up and float or gouge your eyes out with a rusty spoon so you don't have to look at your painfully empty blocking form ever again. Sound familiar? Well, we’re here to give you a crash course in avoiding tearful/obnoxious/existentially-disconcerting blocking day drama...