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Barack Obama calls them the Propeller-Heads, the cheerful band of financial nerds he has charged with saving America's economy. And on the Friday before Presidents' Day weekend, they were ready to show him the latest piece of their rescue plan: the 2010 federal budget. Having just squeezed through Congress what may be the largest spending bill in history, the President now needed to do something that would make the stimulus fight look easy: show the country and the world that he was as serious about preventing waste as he was about promoting growth. Only a lean federal budget...
...packety, pretty old houses lined up one beside the other, each one a different color, with curlicues and flowers, and, man, streets just full of people. White people, black people, mixed-race people, all jumbled up together and walking. Music right on the sidewalk...a whole band and drum set and everything, like the whole city is a big party. I'm looking out the window, eyes big as saucers - eight years old - and I'm thinking, this is a whole different way to be a Negro; I'm thinking, this is where Daddy gets his groove." (See the special...
...cities along Mexico's border with Texas and down the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Protesters have blocked main avenues, slowed traffic across international bridges into the U.S. and clashed with federal police. The Mexican authorities blame this entire movement on the Gulf drug cartel and its bloody band of enforcers known as the Zetas. The demonstrators, says the government, are simply a rent-a-mob being deployed in desperation against a military-led crackdown on the cartels. (See pictures of Mexico's drug wars...
...sometimes get lost amidst the musical commotion. Scenes in which all of the actors are dancing tend to be confused and sloppy, save for the entertaining newborn baby kickline at the end. Supported by the jazzy sounds of composer Alex B. Lipton ’11 and the HPT band, “Acropolis Now” is a rare Greek life spectacle in the generally serious landscape of Harvard theater. In the words of Brometheus, “Pound it.” (That’s what she said.) —Staff writer Beryl C.D. Lipton...
...both lyrically and melodically. Traoré also incorporated funny ditties that she learned as a child into her performance. Traoré is a natural performer who spontaneously beams and breaks into languid dance as she sings. Her songs start off slowly but pick up momentum as she and her band members start to sway back and forth with enthusiasm. In one of her songs, “Zen,” Traoré croons, “Oh, que je suis zen,” before belting the same lyrics as the song intensifies. Even as she insisted...