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Recession Redux "The Price of Greed" is great reporting [Sept. 29]. Andy Serwer and Allan Sloan compressed a staggering amount of information into five pages and still made this trajectory of avarice remarkably clear. Now that I think I understand it, I wish I didn't feel so angry. Edward Claymore, Laguna Woods, California...
This week's hard-hitting cover story on the Wall Street meltdown was penned by two of our favorite colleagues from Fortune: Andy Serwer, the magazine's dynamic managing editor, and Allan Sloan, one of America's premier business journalists. We're pleased to have them in our pages, and you will...
Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Allan M. Brandt were present to welcome the newcomers: former Graduate School of Arts and Sciences dean Peter T. Ellison, former History department chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74, zoologist Farish A. Jenkins Jr., former Earth and Planetary Science department chair Michael B. McElroy, and former Classics department chair Richard J. Tarrant...
Nobody can accuse the band of cowardice. The opening song on the album, Flowers and Football Tops, is inspired by the racist 2004 murder of a 15-year-old, while Go Square Go captures the pounding, fearful heart of a school fight - all delivered with Allan's uncompromising accent that makes the Proclaimers' broad Edinburgh brogue sound like plummy royalty...
...company: religion. The band divides along the religious lines of Glasgow's state schools. "I was at a Catholic school, he was at a Protestant school," James says, nodding to his cousin Rab, who has joined him in the bar. "Our mums are twins," adds Rab, without clarifying further. Allan's feelings about this division inform the album's haunting, hymn-like final track Ice Cream Van, a paean to a better place, a world free of sectarianism and hate. It's hard to imagine any other trendy indie band credited with nailing the zeitgeist writing something as bold...