Word: closers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...time, and nobody thought a thing about it because other newspapers were being born. The law of the jungle is brutal but not particularly sad. Somewhere around the time television got big, though, the newspaper birthrate fell close to zero; after that, every death was one step closer to extinction. You see the difference in the history of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Its 146-year life span is a tale of dead start-ups, relaunches, mergers, fierce competition--all bloody and robust and healthy. Now the P-I is gone but for a skeleton crew of Web producers and opinion...
...business was a gas while it lasted, but that's a topic for the press-club bar. Instead, consider this: every time a news source dies and an online opinion site rises up, we move a little closer to the fact-starved day when the loudmouths have only themselves to talk about...
...sing it the way you feel, react to the way the players are playing," says Tan, about the ensemble's approach to recording. This spontaneity comes across in the listening. From the easy swing of first song "Sweet Lorraine" to the skittering ebullience of "Spain," the album's closer, Raw Jazz sparkles with the brio of live performance. Standout tracks include a jive-worthy version of "Honeysuckle Rose" and "That Old Black Magic," in which Candelaria's bass grounds Tan's larger-than-life channeling of the already larger-than-life Sammy Davis Jr. Exuberant and unexpected, this album reveals...
...lapses we take at certain points in the game hurt us by putting us in a hole, which is hard to get out of,” McMahon said. “Overall, had we played in structure the whole 60 minutes, then the game would have been much closer and there would be a fight for the winning goal...
...regional issues, from Syrian-Israeli peace talks to oil and gas security in the Caucasus and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. "Under Bush, Ankara and Washington were divided on many fronts," says Sahin Alpay, politics professor at Bahcesehir University in Istanbul. "With Obama, they are moving closer together on all of these...