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...losses were concentrated in four big banks, one-third of all banks lost money in the fourth quarter, and only 36% reported year-over-year increases in quarterly earnings. The banks are clearly bracing for more bad news, setting aside more than 50% of their operating revenue to cover possible loan losses...
...guitarist Nick Zinner from doing what he does—play the guitar. Seismic, indeed. “When Karen orders, ‘No guitars for Nick!’ it makes you approach things in a different way,” noted Zinner in the SPIN magazine cover story for March. Claiming famed disco producer Giorgio Moroder, Donna Summer, and lead singer Karen O’s love of dancing as inspirations, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs promise to drop a record that sounds little like their previous, steadfastly rock-based work.Fans of the YYYs are well aware...
...last-minute assertion that the book itself is not a mindfuck. The author does try to instill fear in his readers, appeals to a wide variety of authorities and examples to establish trust, and may have an ulterior motive—as indicated by the $18.95 cover price—all of which are potential qualities of the classic mindfuck. He even admits at one point that “the mindfuck can never advertise itself as such, it must always disguise itself as well-meaning rational persuasion.” As a mindfuck in itself, “Mindfucking?...
...quite the dark abyss of despair the North Atlantic media hypes it up to be: Most people in developing countries find ways to eat and meet their psychological needs each day, although it’s certainly a struggle. OLPC admits that its task is not to cover the basic basics or ease every ill. It is to equip people to improve their lives on their own terms...
...added. Orazine also said that while the store had previously been able to thrive on profits from the tourism season, it could no longer make ends meet until this summer. “We’re not even making enough to cover overhead,” he said. “Paying such a high rent here is just unrealistic at this point.” Vanessa R. Levy, a tourist from Venezuela who was browsing the store yesterday, said that she still found the closing disheartening. “It’s a sign of the economic...