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Critics of Gordon Brown - and amid sliding approval ratings and mutterings from the ranks of his own Labour Party, there are more than a few - complain that Britain's Prime Minister lacks vision. They say he's a details man - not a bad attribute in a Finance Minister, the role he occupied for just over a decade, but a weakness in a national leader whose job it is to discern and articulate the bigger picture. Yet from the Scottish home Brown has owned for more than 20 years, a solid family house with large bay windows and a sloping front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gordon Brown in America | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

...thought of “nothing” sent shivers down my spine. Up and coming bands used to complain that record labels wanted too many records too quickly, thus stifling the creative process. Ironically, this is something that Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor grappled with during his tenure at TVT years ago. Now labels can’t release records, period, even if those records boast more creativity in a single song than the entire top twenty combined. Rock isn’t dead; it’s in need of revival. But it?...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Failing Labels Put Rock Band in Limbo | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

...Don’t recycle it, because a lot of glass plants will clean the bottle and reuse it.” Michelle Sullivan, a Boston Beer spokeswoman, said that the company has not received any reports of injury, though one man did call in to complain that he had taken a sip from a bottle and found some glass in his mouth. In a press release issued Monday, Boston Beer founder and brewer C. James Koch ’71 apologized for the uncharacteristic flaw. “We are disappointed and disturbed by this development...

Author: By Laura C. Mckiernan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Samuel Adams Recalls Beer Bottles | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

...analysts also complain that the industry has failed, because of negative public perceptions, to attract a new generation of petroleum engineers whose skill and innovation would be essential to future oil supplies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPEC: Gas Prices Will Stay High | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

...here should be construed to apply to the editors of TIME, who edit with the care of surgeons, the sensitivity of angels and the wisdom of the better class of Supreme Court Justices.) I have spent most of my professional life as an editor. When editors get together, they complain about writers with the same passion that writers bring to complaining about editors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Writers Vs. Editors: A Battle for the Ages | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

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