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...found they compare positively with even a medium-price surround-sound setup. In our tests (listening to Finding Nemo), we discerned no difference between the five-speaker system and the new Sony and Pioneer models. The only times we missed real speakers were in scenes with lots of bass. The headphones were no match for the rumble of a good subwoofer. But with the headphones you're able to find Nemo without neighbors wondering what you're looking...
Plimpton also earned a temporary position with the New York Philharmonic, playing the sleigh bells, triangle, bass drum and gong...
...Amartya Sen is a hero to those of us who would recall economics to its roots in moral and political philosophy,” Bass Professor of Government Michael Sandel writes in an e-mail. “He reminds us that economics can be a humane science, concerned not only with utility but also with human development, democracy and freedom...
...DIED. NICOLAI GHIAUROV, 74, Bulgarian bass whose warm, rich voice and striking stage presence carried him through almost half a century of opera stardom; in Modena, Italy. Ghiaurov made his debut in 1955 as Basilio in Rossini's The Barber of Seville, and went on to such signature roles as King Philip in Verdi's Don Carlo and the title role in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov...
...never written a bad song. Not one. That would be an amazing streak for a commercial hitmaker, but it's even more impressive given that nearly every Harvey composition flirts with sonic disaster. On Uh Huh Her, out on June 8, she continues to favor jagged countermelodies, bass lines heavier than wet wool and tales of sexual obsession told in a voice that swings from whispered innocence to bunny-boiling, caterwauling madness. It is not dinner-party music--unless you're dining with someone you would like to kill. Or sleep with. Or both...