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...Arcade Fire landed the dream gig for any new band: a few nights opening for U2. By appearances, it was an odd fit. Arcade Fire's seven members took the stage looking as if they just had just ridden out a hurricane in a trailer park. Instruments, hair and clothing were strewn everywhere. The set list, culled from their debut, Funeral, was full of songs about death played on accordion and mandolin. Later U2's the Edge would create endless spaces between guitar chords, while Bono drove metaphorical trucks through them, but somehow Arcade Fire's patchwork symphonies roared almost...
Flying isn't so smooth at Alitalia, the wobbly Italian flagship carrier now being sold by the state that could fit nicely into Air France--KLM. Although several other companies have made bids for Alitalia, a stake in the airline would give Air France a dominant position in the lucrative Italian market and more heft and coverage of its international network. Air France scarcely hides its interest in the strategic allure of linking up with Alitalia, but last month it refused to make a bid for a 49.9% stake the Italian government put on the market, which by law would...
...follower of his own advice. Hallahan, 45, had used a life coach to try to find a job that would be the perfect fit. An early adapter of MobiTV, he first came to the company as a partner of an ad firm to make a pitch for its business. The reverse happened. "What I saw here was the ability to lead the advertising community into new water," he says. "That for me was an interesting challenge because it's requiring a lot of the skills that I've acquired over the years." Having climbed a "significant learning curve" at MobiTV...
...screen. But Harvard-Radcliffe Television (HRTV) is not a station of the past.For most of our lives, the hours from 8:00 to 11:00 p.m. Monday through Friday have been “primetime” for television viewing. Television that couldn’t fit into this time slot wasn’t worth watching, and keeping up with a plotline required setting aside time each week to watch the show.Now, commercial-free television shows are almost immediately uploaded to pirating networks and sites like peekvid.com: take any 10 students on campus, and chances are that they last...
...Blue Staters—who we live with as fellow citizens.Though the era of searching for that “Average American”—representative of the country’s culture, attitudes, and practices—may have passed, our compulsion for understanding where we fit within a larger whole does not. If that were the case, why would we spend hours filling our Facebook profiles and blogs with our interests, activities, and plans? Two generations ago, people were telling the same things to the Lynds, Gallup and Roper, and Kinsey.—Reviewer Brittney...