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...music industry changed over the past 40 years? -Ben Rush, Lincoln, Neb.If you are in a band, it hasn't changed at all. In the end, the music industry is still musicians playing music. If it has changed in any way, it is that nobody who really cares about music is running the industry. In the '80s, accountants ended up running it, and they still are. The record industry has fallen apart. But we are on to the new age, a digital one, where anyone can download. Radiohead-how great! How much do you want to pay? That...
...killing yourself over the holidays: instead, deflect that anger outward by watching extremely violent movies like this one. 4. Batman Returns—Michelle Pfeiffer makes a much better Catwoman than Halle Berry. 5. Reindeer Games—This is actually a terrible movie, but Ben Affleck robs a casino dressed in a Santa outfit. Bonus: Ghostbusters II—Not really an action movie, but superb nonetheless. Pink slime threatens to destroy New York on New Year’s Eve and a crowd singing “Auld Lang Syne” stops a portrait-come-to-life...
...profane. And he has created a form of video message he calls Nooma (phonetic Greek for spirit or breath) that may make him to YouTube what Graham was to the arena. "He could be one of the most important 21st century Christian leaders," says Bible professor and evangelical blogger Ben Witherington. He and several other thinkers feel that in a "post-Christian America," whose basic assumptions are increasingly secular, the faith needs someone who can defend its tenets in the argot of the day. Bell does this effortlessly. The question now is whether he can sell his approach...
...Todd Haynes (“Far From Heaven”), is a brilliantly fresh film about the legendary life and music of Bob Dylan, complete with, needless to say, an amazing soundtrack. Six actors—Marcus Carl Franklin, Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere, and Ben Whishaw—play fictional characters that represent different epochs of Dylan’s life. Tellingly, none of them actually share Dylan’s name. “Woody Guthrie” is a boy attempting to define himself in terms of folk music’s history...
...team, the Harvard Fed Challenge organization, and the economics department. The five members of the group, plus team coordinator Stephanie H. Lo ’10, will get $15,000 of the prize. The Fed Challenge is an economics competition sponsored by the Federal Reserve. Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke ’75, who attended the competition, praised the competitors in his keynote speech and said that the Fed Challenge is the best way for students to learn about the Fed’s role in setting U.S. monetary policy. A panel of judges made up of Senior Vice...