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...Leiber and Stoller weren?t responsible for the Drifters? indenture, they also didn?t bother to force its change. And though the writer-producers? early work had an underdog acerbity, their determination to produce hit after Drifters hit made them cautious with other writers? songs. Mann and Weil had written "Only in America" as a scathing denunciation of civil inequity: "Only in America/ Land of opportunity/ Do they save a seat in the back of the bus just for me." Leiber and Stoller rewrote the lyric as a straightforward, Horatio Alger anthem. The meaning was lost; worse, it was twisted...
...this, people would be willing to listen to anything." An executive from a rival company has similar thoughts. He declares that he won't change editorial content to please China's censors. "But," he adds, "given the size of the investment, the new policy does encourage broadcasters to be cautious. No one wants to ruin their chances." If the plan goes through, China's couch potatoes are in for a whole lot more programming?though it might be so mild they'll yearn for the good old days of pirated signals...
...lowering interest rates, and to the extent that predilection survives the appointee's new responsibilities as a Fed member - namely, preventing inflation that could be fueled by too-low rates - that banker could influence the chairman toward monetary easing. (His recession-fighting of late notwithstanding, Greenspan is usually a cautious type very leery of anything inflationary...
...Since the Cold War ended, there have been six separate task forces charged with updating the Pentagon's strategic outlook and structure. Is there a culture there that's too resistant to change, officers sitting on their hands because they're too cautious...
Astronomers and physicists are a cautious crew, and they insist that the mind-bending discoveries about dark matter, dark energy and the flatness of space-time must be confirmed before they are accepted without reservation. "We're really living dangerously," says Chicago's Turner. "We've got this absurd, wonderful picture of the universe, and now we've got to test it." There could be surprises to come: an Einstein-style cosmological constant, for example, is the leading candidate for dark energy, but it could in principle be something subtly different--a force that could even change directions someday...