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...also exalted the theatrical element over the musical. It happens that the Jonases write most of their own songs, which on first listen did not make me eager for a second. But the basic impact is visual: they're meant to be simultaneously cheerful and lubricious, to fulfill their fans' childlike idolatry and blooming sexual awareness. That's how the brothers' antiseptic image, and the movie's G rating, can coexist with the Jaggeresque poses and wind sprints of the one in the center, Joe Jonas...
Apparently "expos" is taking on new meaning for the class of 2012 : Fly By has discovered an eager group of first-year men "expos"ing themselves on the web. Video after the jump. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9H1bQdT8Pw]A video posted on YouTube features six young men, presumably first-year residents of Canaday Hall, getting down and dirty in the basement of the newest -- but perhaps not cleanest -- freshman dorm. Although there are no women to speak of in the video, it is set to the Britney Spears song "Womanizer". And though the video is sans nudity, here are some highlights...
...bank. But confidence in the financial community remains low. Describing a vicious cycle of risk aversion, former Fed chief and current Obama adviser Paul Volcker told Congress's joint economic committee on Thursday that "an insecure bank faced with what it sees as insecure borrowers is not a very eager lender. It's a problem of lack of good borrowers, confident borrowers, as well as weak banks and worried bankers." Testifying before the House Committee on Financial Services, James K. Galbraith, an economist at the University of Texas at Austin, was more blunt about the government's capital infusions: "Stuffing...
...Commerce. Most participants declined to comment directly on the talks, saying they were sworn to secrecy by Kennedy and risked expulsion from the meetings by talking on the record - though a few were willing to speak anonymously about some of the progress that has been made. Most were eager to praise the new momentum Obama has breathed into the talks this week, including the breakout session on health in his fiscal-responsibility summit on Monday, the underlining of his commitment to health-care reform in his address to the joint session of Congress on Tuesday and in his budget announcement...
...better times are just around the corner. A new power-sharing agreement between the opposition and President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF Party could see progress on restarting Zimbabwe's moribund economy. And it's rumored that Gono's job may be on the chopping block. Foreign investors are eager to dive back into the fray, sensing major opportunities in an economy that will have to be rebuilt almost from scratch. One client of African Banking Corp. is ready to multiply its investments by a factor of 20 once the dire political situation stabilizes. Others remain cautious. "When...