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...songwriting is going, it's possible. If you take it back 30 years or so, people were just talking about holding hands. Now lyrics have gotten so frank and so graphic and honest, and often very literal. Some of the stuff that goes down in R&B lyrics, to the 1980 ear it'd be absolutely unthinkable. I'm not saying that I'm ahead of my time, but it wouldn't surprise me if that line actually found more of a home in 20 years than it does...
...Santander agreed to buy the savings deposits and branch network of the hopelessly overextended British lender Bradford & Bingley (B&B), forced into nationalization yesterday after investors and lenders lost confidence. B&B - whose share price has plummeted 93% this year - relied on the gummed-up wholesale credit markets for around half of its mortgage funding. Many of those home loans it has made, often without proof of the borrower's income, now look risky. For $1.1 billion, Santander will take on $37 billion in savers' deposits; the U.K. government, meanwhile, took on B&B's $78 billion mortgage book...
...Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition.” Originally written for piano, the ten-piece suite was orchestrated by French Impressionist composer Ravel for former music director of the Boston Symphony Serge Koussevitzky. The opening “Promenade” theme in B-flat recurs frequently throughout the piece, though with different tonal shadings. Levine directed the orchestra through a broad and majestic “Promenade,” which contrasted sharply with the subsequent, darker movement depicting a crooked-legged gnome scurrying about. The trumpet solos were particularly successful in carrying...
...Earlier in the afternoon one of them had said, about their art and their process, “It’s all intertwined, mostly on a human level. Because we are human beings. They forget to tell you that!”—Staff writer Alexander B. Fabry can be reached at fabry@fas.harvard.edu...
...team that hadn’t won an ACC game in its program history. To a team that hadn’t won an ACC game in its program history!!! (Did you see that? That was an effect of a) repeating to empasize and b) use of the tri-exclamation point emphasis approach. Booyah.)So I’m bummed (see fourth paragraph for surfing metaphor to show you how bummed I was). I did some work in my room, cried a little, consoled myself with some beer, and for the most part, was pretty distraught. But then my friends...