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...Stars On the heels of their sold-out US concert tour, Editors (no article, oh-so-clever) have finally released their first CD, “The Back Room,” in the States, after several months of growing popularity in the United Kingdom. Joy Division comparisons are already tiresome—it seems that every melancholy vocalist in a post-punk band is compared to the late Ian Curtis—but inevitable with Editors, whose debut offers an uneven retread of the sound, style and lyrics of their legendary Manchester-based predecessors. When everything comes together...
...McGee, has been quoted as saying that “Mr Beast” is “possibly better than ‘Loveless,’” the legendary My Bloody Valentine triumph of sound engineering (and reportedly the most expensive record ever made).The comparison is not quite called for, but McGee is right to call attention to the album’s production. This album sounds great. The tone is full, lush, and urgent, pushing Mogwai’s music toward an emotional depth that their earlier work had only hinted...
...Edward Glaeser fortunately, and to his credit, has apologized,” Schmid said. In an interview with The Crimson last month, Glaeser drew a comparison between a magazine article that criticized Summers and the early-20th century anti-Semitic hoax “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” But Glaeser later said that he did not intend to suggest that the magazine article—or any criticism of Summers—was motivated by anti-Semitism...
...would presumably beg to differ. Last summer those two traditional rivals played each other in a terrific series that captured the attention of cricket lovers around the world. But off the field, there is little doubt that the two cradles of the game are increasingly overshadowed by India. In comparison with the Nimbus deal, TV rights to three years of English cricket went for $384 million last summer, to Rupert Murdoch's British Sky Broadcasting. Nimbus' record-breaking offer is indicative of unimaginable sums of money that Indian cricket, with its vast and ever more affluent fan base, is able...
Glaeser said on Wednesday that he regretted making the comparison, which recalled a notorious anti-Semitic hoax that first appeared in a Russian-language newspaper in 1903. The similarity he meant to point out, Glaeser said, was “that people use defamatory information for their own political objectives...