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...give it up until you give her just about enough / Now those girls are dangerous / It’s enough to make you love a bro.” Here, as elsewhere, a tongue-in-cheek attitude prevails that’s refreshing and funny. They dip into Streets-style flirtatious wordplay with the track “Girl,” and it suits the bluesy, British-accented, simultaneously raspy and rich voice of vocalist Kelvin Swaby surprisingly well, as he claims, “Girl / You look like you could have some fun / Better yet you look like...

Author: By Meredith S. Steuer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Heavy | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

While EMI has had an especially tough time, it is also something of a barometer for the biggest players in the business. Universal Music, the world's largest record company, saw its revenues dip slightly last year. Low margins at Sony BMG, the industry's No. 2, have left its own music business ripe for a private-equity buyout this year, says Gerd Leonhard, a music-industry consultant in Switzerland. And shares at No. 3 Warner Music have been in freefall for months; a $16 million first-quarter loss was announced in February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Music Industry: Lost in the Shuffle | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

...think of us, or perhaps because we become more adept at avoiding situations we don't like. (The Edinburgh researchers, too, found that older study participants scored lower than younger ones on scales of neuroticism - worry and nervousness - and higher on scales of agreeableness.) Oswald chalks up the midlife dip in happiness shown in his study to people "letting go of impossible aspirations" - first, there's the pain of fading youth and the realization that we may never accomplish all that we had dreamed, then the contentment we gain later in life through acceptance and self-awareness. "When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Our Happiness Preordained? | 3/12/2008 | See Source »

...also conducts wider market research to decide exactly which prominent people, living or dead, should be immortalized in a kind of tallow known as "Japan wax". Popularity among the patrons was what won Bollywood star Salman Khan his Tussaud's debut in January. But a dip in popularity can see figures hustled off into storage to make way for fresh exhibits. Still, there's always the possibility of rehabilitation: The chunky singer Gary Barlow was dusted down and reinstalled in the Music Zone after his 1990s boy-band Take That reunited in 2005 and went on to score new hits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fearful of Waning, Gordon Brown Seeks Waxing | 3/12/2008 | See Source »

...Financial aid] programs are very costly for us. You know we have a large endowment but that endowment funds programs and research across a university,” Faust said. “It’s not just a great pot of money that we can dip into.”U.S. Senator Charles E. Grassley, the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, has made a point of criticizing universities for maintaining ample endowment funds at the cost of financial aid, most recently requesting financial data from Harvard and 135 other institutions in January.The parents weekend event...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks and Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Faust Addresses Junior Parents | 3/10/2008 | See Source »

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