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...majority of expatriate Poles expect to go home within two years--if they can. True, Poland's economy is growing at a healthy 5.9% clip, but its unemployment rate, at 15%, is the worst in the E.U. A stolid business culture does little to attract the brightest and best to the jobs that are available. Experts such as Ryszard Petru, chief economist at Bank BPH, and Witold Orlowski, ex--economic adviser to former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski, say the government should cut hiring costs, taxes and social spending. "Whether we will be the second Ireland or the Third World depends...
...after finishing the clip, I was left wondering several different things, only one of which merits reprinting here: have the blues ceased to exist in mainstream popular culture? Part of the reason “Black Snake Moan” drew my attention was the relative rarity of hearing blues in a popular context (read: not on NPR or PBS). I’ve always loved the blues, but I recognize their relative obscurity and never expected to encounter them in any conventional, popularized setting...
...sneakers. The video begins with legendary DJ Premier flipping through floppy disks and working an old mixer—not exactly Apple Garage Band—resulting in a fresh old-school beat a la the music of Marley Marl or the Fearless Four. The footage is interspersed with clips of MCs in studio, spitting their self-proclaimed “classic” rhymes, as well as shots of graffiti artists creating murals of the rappers’ names and the shoes. However, instead of showcasing the timeless attributes of early hip hop culture, the video serves only...
Since the early 1990s, the Internet has swallowed up other media like kudzu: Tower Records closes stores while iTunes thrives, and the most popular clip on YouTube gets more viewers than the biggest blockbuster films. But in the face of this onslaught, books have remained relatively untouched. To me, books are a remnant from the old order when people still luxuriated in bubble baths and drank dry martinis. So when both Random House and HarperCollins announced they had a new way of combining technology and literature, I was skeptical. Last week, Random House introduced Insight, a new browsing feature...
...start in the non-conference slate before torching the Ivy League with a 13-1 conference mark.When I left Cambridge, the Crimson was just beginning conference play in late January. A shocking road loss at Yale – a game marred by Harvard’s 20 percent clip from behind the arc and a 35.1 percent mark from the field – on the opening weekend of Ivy play seemed an early harbinger of inconsistency and underperforming.Then I flew south for the spring, and the Crimson took off running. 12 straight wins in Ivy League play...