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...Dirt Cowboy is not exactly evidence that John is pursuing new vistas of songwriting. But in the comfortable setting of his AM-radio salad days, he bangs out several irresistible tunes (Tinderbox, Blues Never Fade Away), and Bernie Taupin produces a typically serviceable string of lyrics. The most interesting element here is John's voice; it's a lot scruffier than you might remember. At 59, he stretches to hit the high notes he used to kill, yet the strain gives his glossiest songs something they have never had before: a little grit...
...must be a force from outside. Who is that force from outside? What is the cause of those from outside to come in and kill us and try to prevent our reconstruction? That sort of focus I want. There are two things. Or perhaps both elements. We must sort out what part of this problem is Afghan. And then that is our responsibility to handle. Be it corruption, be it lack of capacity, or be it some Afghan elements that would not like us to make progress or have foreign friends. But the bigger part, the more serious part...
Quants (short for quantitative analysts) combine hundreds of data points--cash flow, earnings growth, inventory turnover, trades by company executives--for thousands of stocks into elaborate computer programs that then say to buy certain stocks and sell others. Which the quants do, unflinchingly. "The emotional element is one that we want to remove from our decision-making process," says Zili Zhang, who runs quant research at mutual-fund firm American Century...
...existing sociological literature wasn't much help. "There really hasn't been much on romantic relationships" among adolescents, Giordano says with a sigh. "And what there has been is really much more focused on sex itself." Moreover, the earlier work all seemed to be missing a crucial element: past sociologists had compiled reams of data about behavior--what teens do--but not much about what that behavior meant to them--what teens actually feel. Giordano didn't just want to know if a boy told his girlfriend he loved her. She also wanted to know if he really meant...
...rafters of U2's early '90s Zoo TV tour to the giant beaded LED curtains of the recent Vertigo shows, he has turned concrete caverns into spaces that drip with mood. And when the music starts, Williams, who pioneered the integration of video and light into a single element, turns the sets into an extravaganza that enhances but never competes with the sound...