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...Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group. U2? “Vertigo”? The iPod anthem is by no means a bad song, but isn’t U2 established enough at this point that these cookie-cutter songs are coming out on a conveyor belt? Especially compared to the crisp tones of “Take Me Out,” or even Green Day’s “American Idiot,” which was also nominated and snubbed, “Vertigo” becomes indistinguishable from “Beautiful Day?...
...Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group. U2? “Vertigo”? The iPod anthem is by no means a bad song, but isn’t U2 established enough at this point that these cookie-cutter songs are coming out on a conveyor belt? Especially compared to the crisp tones of “Take Me Out,” or even Green Day’s “American Idiot,” which was also nominated and snubbed, “Vertigo” becomes indistinguishable from “Beautiful Day?...
...member of a contingent of lecture attendants whose white hair and 60-plus years set them even further from the crowd. Hiatt and a platoon of her peers attend classes at Harvard regularly. So far she has “seven or eight courses” under her belt, including “Chamber Music from Mozart to Revel,” which she has audited three times because “Professor [Robert D.] Levin [’68] uses different music each time...
...some point, we are unwilling to pay any more money for a slightly better safety belt. That doesn’t mean we place zero value on our lives. But ultimately, Posner writes, “the difficulty…that people have in grasping miniscule probabilities would cause them to ignore the risk completely and thus demand zero compensation for bearing...
...Coop and pick up a copy of Catastrophe. But on the way, follow Posner’s risk-reducing advice: strap on a bicycle helmet, buckle up your safety belt, look both ways before you cross the street…and watch out for particle physicists on the loose...