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...aren’t telling the Brown Daily Herald or singing groups they have to [cut seven weeks out of their schedule.]” Harvard students dedicate untold amounts of time to other activities that take away from their academic performances. One example is a friend who sang with the Callbacks for all of sophomore year. I didn’t see her once—she was always practicing with them or away for singing concerts or world tours. The dance team’s website outlines rigorous standards that must be met by all participants, including attendance...
...sure they were. The musical bits even had the little MTV titles. The songs I sang for the doll series were made into trippy ’80s-style videos, like fantasy pieces. They had all those insane colors, and makeup that looked like war paint, which was of course totally...
...church meeting with Jaime, this lively group of impoverished immigrants sang hymns in Spanish yelling “Aleluia! Amen!” and many were swaying or crying, moved by the emotion and power of an “encounter with God.” Pentecostals pray out loud in spiritual languages they do not understand, but believe are given to them by God. This is called “speaking in tongues.” To the uninitiated, this display is perplexing. A Dutch friend of mine, Jonathan, turned to me and whispered, “Are they...
...frail breath of remembered ardor. But these thrushes were crowded out of the Top 40 by jail-bait divas like Rosie Hamlin ("Angel Baby"), Little Peggy March ("I Will Follow Him") and Lesley Gore ("It's My Party"), and by the teen girl groups. Many of the anthems they sang, of suicidal angst or jolting joy, were written by other teenagers who worked in the Brill Building, smack in the heart of the musical-theater district that their music had made obsolescent...
...than thorough even within its purview. It investigated only 83 cases out of hundreds of unexplained deaths because many of the victims' families were suspicious or too discouraged after years of failing to get answers. It solved only 34. "Too many cases were left unsolved," admits commission president Hang Sang Beom. "This is a blow against democratic reform." (The infamous 1980 Kwangju massacre was investigated by another body that ended its work last year. The government paid compensation of $190 million to victims and victims' families, although critics say the official death toll of fewer than 200 people is grossly...