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...people?” he asked. “Well, you said it was surprising, so 50,” replied Joyce Y. Zhang ’09, who is also a Crimson news editor. “29,” he said. HRCSA cultural co-chair Jennifer Ding ’10 said that she and Cheuk were pleased with the outcome of the event. “Even though it was a lot of hard work, it turned out to be a very successful and fruitful project. And Edmond and I are looking to do similar events...

Author: By Diane J. Choi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Learn Eastern Etiquette | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

...actress, Spector was the wunderkind of pop-rock production techniques, infusing such girl-group hits as "Da Doo Ron Ron" and "Be My Baby" with his Wagnerian pomp and sonic drive. In this great set, arranger Jack Nitzsche smartly attaches vamps from RB (Sleigh Ride's "ringa-linga-linga-ding-dong-ding") and the Big Band era to the Christmas hits of the previous two decades (no spirituals here) and supplements the tambourine-and-drum pulse of the Spector sound with chimes, sleigh bells and a million maracas. The Crystals' propulsive version of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 12 CDs of Christmas | 12/22/2006 | See Source »

...dozen often brilliant albums. But no rapper is immune to the pull of the mike, and on Kingdom Come, his heavily hyped comeback, Jay-Z tries to subvert the problem of having said everything by saying everything a little differently. Where once his delivery had the ring-a-ding-ding smoothness of Sinatra--another vocalist who made callousness seem like charm--Jay recognizes that, at 37, with a girlfriend beloved by the public (Beyonc Knowles) and a company to run (Def Jam Records), that act is a lot harder to pull off. So on Lost One and the brilliant thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Un-Retirement of Jay-Z | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

...dozen often brilliant albums. But no rapper is immune to the pull of the mic, and on Kingdom Come, his heavily hyped comeback, Jay-Z tries to subvert the problem of having said everything by saying everything a little differently. Where once his delivery had the ring-a-ding-ding smoothness of Sinatra-another vocalist who made callousness seem like charm-Jay recognizes that, at 37, with a girlfriend beloved by the public (Beyonce Knowles) and a company to run (Def Jam Records) that act is a lot harder to pull off. So on "Lost One" and the brilliant thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Un-Retirement of Jay-Z | 11/24/2006 | See Source »

Credit-card companies are constantly adjusting their rates, penalties and fees, and understanding all the ways they ding you requires ever more diligence. Disclosures now run 20 pages on average, up from one page a decade ago. And though late fees are hardly new, since the mid-'90s they have tripled, to about $30 on average--commonly going as high as $39. "Sure, they send you notification," says Adam Levin, founder of Credit.com a consumer-education website. "But your eyes just glaze over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Credit Cards Soak You | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

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