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...about a family reunion that ends with a trip to a grave), but she's really a hybrid of folk and adult pop: equal parts Patty Griffin and Norah Jones. For lyrics, this native New Yorker leans on just a few evocative nouns, and her melodies grow in the wide open spaces between delicately played guitar chords. Her singing on the standouts You Just Forgot and Please Stay is cool and restrained--not from an absence of feeling but from an excess...
Kurdistan ? The Kurdish-dominated north already enjoys wide autonomy and relative peace, but Kurds want oil-rich Kirkuk to be part of an independent Kurdistan--something the country's Arabs fiercely oppose...
...just saw Tony Snow!" His fame--invariably, his colleagues describe him as a "rock star"--has unavoidably changed the very nature of the job. He is more than a mouthpiece; he's a one-man echo chamber, able to riff on the themes of the Bush presidency with a wide smile and a word-a-day-calendar vocabulary. His flamboyant style has drawn the media spotlight just a little off center, away from the President. And these days, the White House doesn't mind...
Jennifer Sifers was made for ice hockey. When most first grade girls were lacing up figure skates, Sifers just couldn’t make it work.“My feet were too wide to fit,” she laughs.Luckily for the Crimson, she found something more comfortable.Following in her brothers’ blade marks, Sifers headed for the hockey rink at six years old. Since then, she’s taken home three ECAC titles and made three appearances at the NCAAs with the Crimson, impressing coaches and teammates alike with her athletic prowess and go-getter attitude...
...hard count, jumping offsides five times. But the defense could not be held solely responsible for the outpouring of yellow towels as the offense had nine flags of its own, four of which were on false start calls.One key offensive penalty came on a pass floated to senior wide receiver Corey Mazza in the endzone. Mazza was called for offensive pass interference, and instead of the drive ending in seven on the board, Harvard settled on junior Matt Schindel’s 36-yard field goal. The squad was averaging less than six penalties a game before Saturday, although...