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...words "change the world." It's not just marketing. His was supposed to be the tough adjustment, but in truth Ichiro has made few concessions. American fans, pitchers and general managers are the ones scrambling to adjust. Already his success has killed, once and for all, the long-held conceit that a small Japanese player (Ichiro is 1.75 m tall and weighs 72.6 kg) would be overwhelmed in the major leagues. In Japan, meanwhile, it has completely altered the landscape. A mere baseball star when he played there, Ichiro is now an omnipresent cultural icon...
...with true rock and roll sneer: “Jesus, when you going to come back?/ Jesus, I dare you to come back.” The highlight of the evening was the swaggering single, “Spread Your Love” which built from its inflated Beatles conceit to a grinding, howling climax. Black leather and dishevelment are back...
...best songs on the album, “Detroit Swing 66,” is underpinned by a roiling bass sample and trips through unpredictable synthesised beats. Yet Gomez’ love of melody and experimentation (they produce all their albums themselves) is too great to let any single conceit carry a song, and the impishness soon shows through, as Ian Ball gurgles, “Your spaceship has arrived/ Please...
...Unfortunately, their timing was bad. During the giddy days of the Internet bubble, when the amount of data transmitted over the Web was doubling every month, Global Crossing's international network seemed like the right idea at the right time?investors certainly bought into the conceit, driving Global Crossing stock price up to a peak of $60 in February 2000. As Internet traffic has slowed, however, that optimistic build-out has resulted in a fiber-optic glut?too much capacity and too little traffic. Transmission prices on some routes fell 50% a year in 1999 and 2000. Analysts estimate that...
Goldman wrote that “conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.” In Zinn’s mind, the notions of unity and “unconditional support” that Americans are presented with today are “scary and totalitarian.” Dissenters have always held a great appeal for Zinn in his writing, and in practice, he believes that dissent is critical to a well-functioning society. (He notes a certain irony in the fact that first amendment rights are most limited when they are most necessary.) His arguments...