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...Zornow started DJ-ing in his early teens, drawn by a love of hip hop and an inability to rap. He spent hours in his room practicing moves on a turntable and watching videos of former DMC champions, including the New York City-based group Lo-Livez, who became his mentors...

Author: By Sarah J. Howland, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Senior Wins World DJ Title | 10/9/2007 | See Source »

...other runners who trained meticulously and had spent many hundreds of dollars in airfare, hotel rooms and equipment to take part in the race, the cancellation was a major letdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When a Marathon Goes Wrong | 10/8/2007 | See Source »

...song comes off as pleasant but jarringly un-Bosslike. “Girls In Their Summer Clothes” is another departure from the norm, an attempted fusion of Beach Boys pop and stadium rock that results in the album’s worst track. Springsteen has spent much of the past decade rallying opposition to the Bush administration, but “Magic” is relatively apolitical. The only blatant protest song is “Last to Die,” featuring the chorus “Whose blood will spill / Whose heart will break / Who?...

Author: By Jeffrey W. Feldman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bruce Springsteen | 10/5/2007 | See Source »

...Francis Ford, is an oddly intense portrait of brotherhood and loss. It chronicles three siblings—played by Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, and Schwartzman—who embark on a Beatles-esque spiritual journey through India a year after their father’s death, having spent the intervening time estranged. Everything does not go as planned: after several strange mishaps, the brothers end up lost in the desert with no one to ask for help and no easy way out. Wilson, Brody, and Schwartzman create a compellingly realistic dynamic of brothers in mourning: they give freely but take...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Darjeeling Limited | 10/5/2007 | See Source »

...everyone shares Michnik's appreciation of Grass. One nationalist newspaper columnist called Grass a "cheater," while deputies with the ruling nationalist Law and Justice Party boycotted the Gdansk celebration and decried the $100,000 spent by the city on the event. The ruling party led by the twins Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, which faces the voters two weeks from now, has stressed Poland's suffering at the hands of Germany during the war, and relations between the two countries have chilled during their two years in power. But Gdansk appears more willing to both remember and forgive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grass and Walesa Forgive in Gdansk | 10/5/2007 | See Source »

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