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Music To Eat Lunch To – The Tender Box: The Score

Release: October 2006 Label: Universal Tracks: 11 Rating: 3 Before I get deeply involved in a description of this album and its merit (or lack thereof), let me first explain my rating system for these reviews. Like most scoring charts, mine starts at one and ends at ten, with ten being the best. Simple. But… Read more »

Click On This – This Note’s For You

Indiepedia http://indiepedia.org/ It’s Wikipedia for the indie music crowd. Come add to the fun and available information. Participation is open to all. Woot http://www.woot.com/ “Woot.com is an online store and community that focuses on selling cool stuff cheap. […] We sell one item per day until it is sold out or until 11:59 p.m. Central… Read more »

The Good Life – The Web of Our Influence

It is sometimes very tempting, and dispiriting, to imagine that we have very little control over what happens in the world around us. Throughout the world, there are wars, riots, and signs of impending economic and environmental collapse. Sometimes we feel insignificant and powerless, as though we were plankton caught up in the great surge… Read more »

Lost & Found – Living on Borrowed Time

I’ve always loathed the notion of “living on borrowed time,” even though I’m confident that God wears a watch as big as the moon and with no dials. ~Jim Harrison I went to the doctor, and he told me I have no more than eighty or ninety more years to live. I can’t tell you… Read more »

Sun Signs – Aquarius: January 21 – February 19

Aquarius January 21 – February 19 The glyph (written symbol) for Aquarius is two ridged wavy lines representing the spiritual water of heaven, electric energy and the wisdom of the future. Aquarius, the eleventh sign of the zodiac, is a masculine, fixed-air sign and is ruled by the planet Uranus. The symbol for Aquarius is… Read more »

Book Review – Among the Dead Cities

Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan, by A. C. Grayling A year ago, I was living in Hamburg, where everyday I passed by a sculpture depicting mangled and burned corpses scorched into a charred wasteland. It was a memorial that portrayed the… Read more »

We Love to Hear From You!

We love to hear from you! Send your questions and comments to voice@ausu.org, and please indicate if we may publish your letter. To AU Students Microsoft Office 2007 will be officially released by Microsoft January 31, 2007, and has been available for download from Microsoft for a while. While AU staff will eventually be using… Read more »

Voice Photo Feature – Autumn in Paris

As my studies in translation are surprisingly fast approaching their end, I decided it was the right time for me to put my knowledge of French to a final test. I live in Slovenia, a small European country, where students, at least many students that I know, take great advantage of the Socratus-Erasmus progam for… Read more »