Word: bells
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...Just like Shakespeare was gonna write his plays, the Wright brothers were gonna invent an airplane, like Edison was gonna invent a telephone, I was put here to do this. I knew I was gonna do it better than anybody ever did it." Well, actually, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. But who says you can't remake the past...
...Black Star (Mos Def and Talib Kweli) is a virtual symphony of African internationalism. The group's name alludes to Marcus Garvey's back-to-Africa nationalism, and the lyrics paint a red, green and black mural stretching from Coltrane to Du Bois to Ishmael Reed to Derrick Bell. Brown Skin Lady is a love song both to a woman and to Africa itself ("I know women on the continent got it/Nigeria and Ghana, you know they got it/Tanzania, Namibia and Mozambique...
Invisible Downtown took the makeshift stage next. The band, made up of Joseph S. Bell ’03 and Michael J. Palmer ‘03, vocals and guitar, Matthew J. Kamen ’03, bass and Travis M. Beamish ’04, drums, describes itself as “an edgy indie power pop quartet,” but this is an indie power pop quartet that isn’t shy about spontaneously breaking out with “Bust a Move...
...NYSE chief Richard Grasso vows to anyone who asks that when the doors swing wide Monday and the opening bell rings at 9:30 a.m., the granite heart of American capitalism will pump money and investments just like it has always done. That when Mr. and Mrs. Public phone their broker or log onto their eTrade account to look to their retirement, the call - and the trade - will go through...
...last two-day close on Wall Street was following the JFK assassination; the last time longer than that was the four-day "bank holiday" in panicked 1930 and another, longer stretch during WWI. At about the time Wall Street?s closing bell would normally have rung Wednesday, exchange officials announced that some trading would resume Thursday, but that the equities markets would be open as early as Friday...