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...your simple ass,” he recites with emphasis on “as” and “ass”—giving the song a lighthearted quality matched by its jingling melody. While many tracks have a serious, creepy, or downright melancholic feel, Cudi offsets the dismal mood they create with clever, playful elements.While Cudi’s consistency is admirable and his missteps are few, some tracks are notably weaker than others. While “Pursuit of Happiness” is imaginatively crafted, again featuring Ratatat as well as fellow neo-psychodelic...

Author: By Sarah E. Rich, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kid Cudi | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...cost was a bailout that placed trillions of taxpayer dollars at risk. It was expensive, it was messy, it was unfair. It struck many people as downright un-American. But it worked. "I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system," is how President George W. Bush described it last December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Lessons of the Lehman Brothers Collapse | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

Throughout most of the debate, though a slim majority of the packed Science Center audience admitted to eating meat, Hopkin conceded Friedrich’s arguments about the immorality of being a carnivore in today’s world. PETA seemed downright reasonable...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese | Title: PETA Debate: On Tolstoy and Bonzai Trees | 9/13/2009 | See Source »

Throughout most of the debate, though a slim majority of the packed Science Center audience admitted to eating meat, Hopkin conceded Friedrich’s arguments about the immorality of being a carnivore in today’s world. PETA seemed downright reasonable...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese | Title: PETA Debate: On Tolstoy and Bonzai Trees | 9/12/2009 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Berlusconi's repeated claims that he is Italy's' victim No. 1 of the media strike many as absurd, or downright Orwellian. His ownership of and influence over some 90 % of Italian television is again on bright display, as commercials have been banned on all major TV stations of a new Swedish movie that criticizes Berlusconi's media control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Offended Berlusconi Goes on the Offensive | 9/6/2009 | See Source »

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