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...Everything will fail if she doesn’t have a lot of contact with students and have a presence,” says Undergraduate Council President Rohit Chopra...
...Great Nations At War over a Woman. How Can It Fail...
Music being the most abstract of the popular arts, it is hard to know exactly why some bands succeed and others fail. This much we do know: Spoon was once a band teetering toward failure. It was the late '90s, and Spoon was playing competent post-punk in the tradition of Wire and the Pixies. And in the post-punk tradition, the group was widely ignored. After a two-month affiliation with a major label, Spoon had its contract revoked. The band was deemed not only hopelessly uncommercial but also hopelessly uninteresting...
...fall back on, but as he says now, "What was I gonna do with that?" Instead of sending out resumes, he wrote two hysterically cathartic songs about Ron Laffitte, the A.-and-R. guy who signed and then abandoned Spoon--The Agony of Laffitte and Laffitte Don't Fail Me Now. Daniel kept on writing and shuffled the lineup a bit, and in one of those moments that make up for all the Limp Bizkits in the world, Spoon stumbled onto a sound of its own. Girls Can Tell, the 2001 reanimation of Spoon, was a brilliantly minimalist rock album...
Most mutual-fund companies that sell through brokers give clients a discount on up-front commissions once they invest $25,000. But because of complex rules and carelessness, brokers often fail to award breakpoint discounts to their customers. The National Association of Securities Dealers is cracking down, telling brokerages to send out refunds possibly worth tens of millions of dollars. Although your broker should determine if you qualify, it doesn't hurt to ask or to read your fund prospectus and statement of additional information, both of which list breakpoint rules. All money invested with one fund firm--say, American...