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...almost fell out of our chairs. Et tu, Jay? But why? We analyze the e-mail, after the jump...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cabot House Masters Say Adieu | 11/29/2009 | See Source »

...commercial gamble outside the Tuvan, Siberian and Mongolian worlds. Far more bankable are collaborations like that behind Eternal, the new album from producer Carmen Rizzo and musicians Kaigal-ool Khovalyg, Sayan Bapa, Radik Tyulyush and Alexei Saryglar, who together comprise the celebrated Tuvan vocal ensemble Huun Huur Tu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steppe It Up | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...Rizzo has worked with the likes of Coldplay, k.d. lang, Alanis Morissette and Paul Oakenfold, and brings to the project all the consummate, knob-twiddling expertise that you would expect of a two-time Grammy nominee. Huun Huur Tu's sparse, ethereal songs - where simple lutes like the doshpuluur and two-stringed fiddles like the igil form the typical accompaniment - are fleshed out with drum loops, cello, keyboard and guitar, but they are not overwhelmed. In haunting paeans like "Mother Taiga" or "Ancestors Call" the romance of the Tuvan steppe is potently concentrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steppe It Up | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...Mullen's 25-year-old son Michael was killed by friendly fire when a U.S. artillery shell struck near the South Vietnamese village of Tu Chanh. His mother, brokenhearted, did what any other mother would--or should--do when her child is killed in an illegal and immoral war: she went on a search for the truth. Mullen, an Iowa homemaker who died on Oct. 2 at 92, spent more than two decades probing her son's death. In 1995 she published her findings in a book called Unfriendly Fire: A Mother's Memoir, which painted a scathing portrait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peg Mullen | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...sleeves in “The Golden Calf.” The novel is filled with cues from high and low culture—colorful and referential insults, classical literature, and cosmopolitan knowhow. One pretend madman, exercising freedom of speech as his alter ego declares, “Et tu, Brute, sold out the Bolsheviks!” The novel also takes particular interest in allusions to “The Brothers Karamazov,” and at one point Ostap conflates the story of Jason’s Golden Fleece with the titular (and Biblical) Golden Calf...

Author: By Brianne Corcoran, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Translation of a Soviet Touchstone | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

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