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...glad one of the greatest bands on this planet "has clearly found itself stuck in a very strange moment of self-reckoning." For me it clearly says: yes, we are back on track, with rock music that thrills over and over again. Why should musicians not be allowed to echo the past? In other fields they are praised when they pay tribute to their roots. Thanks - I'm off to the shop. Peter Terlouw, GOUDA, THE NETHERLANDS...
That's a chilling echo of what happened in the United States over the last decade. But there are important differences in the two markets. For one thing, Chinese by law must have "skin in the game." The absolute minimum down payment on a new house or apartment is 20% of the purchase price, and for most buyers it's usually closer to 30%. And a large percentage of Chinese - upwards of 40% according to some estimates - pay cash for new apartments, because in a high savings economy, housing is widely seen as a safe investment. That means, in China...
...laying down the tracks—“Before rappers was turning mics on, he was up at 63 Park, playing the right songs,” Lordikim notes deferentially on “Bronx Bombers.” Perhaps in a misguided attempt to echo the uncomplicated wordplay of hip-hop’s early days, the lyrical content becomes hopelessly mired in uninventive rhymes and hackneyed phrases. On “I Got Sumthin’ To Say,” Lordikim flows over the energetic, drum-heavy track to cringe-inducing effect: “Baby...
...staying in the country after college difficult for international students. While many of Harvard’s nearly 4,000 international students intend to stay in the United States to work, others, like Ivan Z. Posavec ’10 and Zeina Oweis ’11, echo the study’s findings. “I love the United States, but I miss home, I miss my parents, my brothers,” said Posavec, a native of Serbia. “I cannot see myself spending the rest of my life thousands of miles away from here...
...budget cuts—Kagan has achieved a series of major successes including the completion of the largest capital campaign in the history of legal education and the start of a large-scale construction project known as the Northwest Corner.Kagan’s colleagues and former classmates echo one another in saying that her own experience as a Law School student shaped not only her character, but her vision for the future of the school and her approach to her next would-be position as solicitor general in President Barack Obama’s administration...