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Seemingly every modern musician has an "intimate" live album. Their acoustic renditions rarely provide new elements of appreciation or achievement. For Natalie Merchant, her music never shines brighter than when she performs in concert. The most memorable remnant of Merchant's days with 10,000 Maniacs is their Unplugged performance, particularly the touching cover of "Because the Night." Merchant continues to please and excite her fans in her first solo live release, Live in Concert, featuring the very finest performances from her sold out concerts at the Neil Simon Theater in New York City. Although Merchant's studio creations...
...Harvard defensive outlook entering the year was not much brighter, with the departure of graduated backs Jaime Chu and Devon Bingham. Chu and Bingham--First and Second Team All-Ivy selections respectively in '98--helped lead a stellar defensive backfield...
...rehearsing the killer moment where he says, "Say hello to the new iMacs," and the machines glide out from behind the dark curtain and across the stage. But the current lighting leaves their translucence insufficiently vivid on the gigantic onstage screen. So Jobs wants the lights brighter and turned on earlier in the roll-out. The producer, Steph Adams, speaks into his headset, telling the backstage guys to yeah, just try it again, with the edgy tone of a man whose job consists of placating a perfectionist. No good. Jobs jogs halfway up the aisle and slouches into a center...
...Never be the brightest person in the room," he said. "If you are...no one will help you. Always go places where people are brighter," he proffered before pausing. "That's why people go to Harvard, right...
...just for the sake of argument, suppose raising IQ didn't require any permanent, expensive genetic engineering at all. Scientists are studying brain-boosting compounds. Suppose they found something as cheap and easy as aspirin; one pill and you wake up the next morning a little bit brighter. Who could argue with that...