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...Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed charges today against high-flying Houston-based financier R. Allen Stanford for orchestrating what it calls a multibillion-dollar investment fraud of "shocking magnitude...
...maintains financial independence. Huey did not specify how the Law Review’s financial footing would be affected by the current economic downturn or what steps she would take to ensure the journal’s financial well-being. Huey assumes the Law Review presidency from Robert W. Allen, a third-year law student. Allen said he had confidence in the new president and thought she would continue the journal’s reputation for top scholarship. “The qualities that we look for in a president are someone who is smart, hard-working, and easy...
...Allen takes on a few subjects that are beyond her grasp--"F___ You," her rotten egg lobbed at George W. Bush, feels ridiculous and late--but even when she's being stupid, she sounds like an honest pop star. To quote a line from her ballad "Who'd Have Known," "Even though it's moving forward, there's just the right amount of awkward...
What's different--and better--is Allen. Her range is a tiny thing, but she dispenses with the guv'nors and blimeys and sings with a pout, as if she were caught in the middle of a mildly disappointing day--though no worse than what she expected when she got up. Her voice rarely rises above the conversational and never sounds labored; nothing she sings feels like a statement, which is why you're surprised when the lyrics add up to something smart. "The Fear," already a hit in Britain, is a hummable single about vapid consumerism ("I want...
British singer-songwriter Lily Allen has a rather mellifluous name. She dresses in full skirts and dons a lot of bows. She wears her chocolate-brown hair in side bangs to accentuate her round face. Her melodies are simple and sweet. In short, she plays the part of a naïve little girl particularly well. It’s an impressive façade, and in her new album “It’s Not Me, It’s You,” she uses it to her great advantage.A boldly irreverent lyricist, Allen seems...