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This all-star brainchild of Damon Albarn from Blur; Dan (the Automator) Nakamura; Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz from Tom Tom Club; and Tank Girl animator Jamie Hewlett is technically a concept album: the CD plays a cartoon on your computer. Well, forget the 'toon and listen to the tunes, for this is the most imaginative pop record of the year. Nakamura's beats are wonderfully atmospheric and danceable; Del Tha Funky Homosapien's playful rhymes are the perfect foil to Albarn's ennui-filled vocals, and Weymouth's giant bass whomps away throughout...
BOGOTÁ, Colombia—My time in Bogotá has been a blur of long cab rides, huge libraries, quaint art galleries, cautious political commentary and, of course, soccer...
...accusatory finger pointed at those workers who want a more balanced life." Management will be reinvented. "Work will remain in tomorrow's enterprise and will still need to be managed. But people will increasingly manage themselves," Donkin writes. Less predictably, he argues that barriers between work and leisure will blur, cooperatives will flourish and a new work ethic will develop based on personal choice and the needs of society. Given current Western views about work - broadly defined as "living for work" - and Donkin's nirvana in which toil offers the hope of something better, the question arises of how society...
...kinds of events create a muddy mix of messages and sap the energy of the President and his staff. "You have several different events a day and the president and staff have to get up for each of them," says one aide. "By the end it?s all a blur." Other White House aides believe that the number of events wears Bush down, accounting for some of the verbal diggers he?s taken...
...students of today might consider the University’s leader a passing blur, but the Harvard of the future will owe much of its shape to the decisions—and the money—that he made...