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...beautiful, often sampled from old soul hits, marked by heraldic horns and enough jazz flute to make Herbie Mann proud. “Free at Last” isn’t without its faults though. “Take It To The Top,” featuring 50 Cent, is a garish, tired rip-off of Fiddy’s usual loverman bullshit (think “Candy Shop” or “Follow My Lead”). This is the only track on the album that could be seen as a blatant attempt...
...During his sophomore year, the College launched the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI), which now promises that parents who make less than $60,000 do not have to pay a cent for their children’s educations...
...their demands are not without reason, even if they lack proletarian appeal. Of course writers deserve a cut of whatever profits are made in streaming video. Of course it’s outrageous that they receive only one third of a cent per dollar of royalties—they’re certainly justified in asking for two thirds of a cent. And I do understand that this is a “matter of survival” for the WGA’s less famous members, whose condition is so similar to my own: untalented, unemployed, and unpaid...
...tend to embrace the disreputable. Organized religion doesn't play one-tenth the part in Australian life that it does in American. The churches have power, but compared with the U.S. our civilization is almost entirely secular. Our state-sponsored education is excellent, and we do not give a cent in subsidies to church schools. And we have fierce democratic commitments that hardly exist in America. It is, for example, a (lightly) punishable offense not to vote in a national election. As for campaign contributions, and all the corruption and perversion of democracy that the pursuit of them creates...
...bouquets for Hawke. Eli, a former taxi driver, chips him for being a bad tipper one day years ago. "You said, 'Keep the change,' " Eli says, "and the change was 5 cent!" Another passer-by bawls him out on economic grounds, something about the prediction - actually Paul Keating's - that Australia would become a banana republic. But overall, the reception's good. "Bob's one of my heroes," says Newhouse. "And as you can see, he's still got it." It's hard to see Labor winning Wentworth. But if that happens, a silver-haired charmer will feel...