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...been gone for too long,” and “You packed your bags and you went away / Searching for the brighter day,” respectively. Whereas the repetition of dreaming helped tie tracks together, this monotonous, clichéd notion of departure only serves to flatten the album, and suggests a lack of inspiration...
...supposed end of the Mayan calendar, “2012” shows few signs of being any different from any of the other disaster films to have graced the cinema marquee in the past half decade or so. The trailer is almost archetypal: towering oceanic waves flatten West Coast metropolises, impossibly schismatic earthquakes swallow vehicles in urban centers, and all of humanity resorts to quasi-primal instincts while still maintaining a sense of decency and hope in times of bleak despair. We all know how this ends, of course: Mankind survives another day—at least until next...
...Internal renovations] will inevitably affect House spirit negatively,” said current Eliot House Master Lino Pertile. “The distinctive nature of various Houses has to do with the design of the House—the feel of it. The more you flatten out this distinctiveness, the more [the Houses] become the same, and so the more difficult it is to have House spirit...
...guiltless about taking advantage when someone is down, and Vegas is way down. This has been the first major recession Vegas has experienced since it became a real city. After two decades as one of the fastest-growing metropolises in the U.S., Las Vegas has seen its population growth flatten. It's got the highest foreclosure rate of any major metro area, and the unemployment rate jumped from 3.8% to 12.3% in just three years. Even if you have a job, it's not a good time to have your wage be dependent on lavish tips. The No. 1 convention...
...then? As the stimulus wears off, I expect that we will flatten out in the big developed economies - not have a double dip as the economic bears would argue, but just flatten out. The thing that is different this time is that the developing countries are coming out of this thing very strongly and their own domestic demand is going to sustain them. So they are going to be an important driving force for the global economy. It's worth noting that developing economies are now 35% of the global economy. They are going to be a new factor...