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...returning to the verses is disappointing. The last several tracks on the album wind into a beautiful, mellow trance until the intense, Sigur Ros-like explosion near the end of final song “SXRT.” The outburst quickly fades, though, into eerily peaceful bells that float off like a wisp of smoke. Now the wait begins once more. Bloc Party has proven itself twice and has just begun to brush the surface of its own potential with a smattering of musical genres. Okereke and the rest of Bloc Party leave you with the hope of still...
...font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; } #305 { width: 305px; } .titlerow-a { background-color: #bbb; float: left; width: 175px; } .titlerow-b { background-color: #bbb; float: right; width: 125px; text-align: right; } .row1a { background-color: #fff; float: left; width: 175px; } .row1b { background-color: #fff; float: right; width: 125px; text-align: right; } .row2a { background-color: #ddd; float: left; width: 175px; } .row2b { background-color: #ddd; float: right; width: 125px; text-align: right; } .source { font-size: 11px; text-align: right...
...Iran fiasco to a Washington dinner party. His excited table partners waited between sips of wine for him to begin to blab (as 99 out of every 100 members of Congress are wont to do), to divulge savory tidbits with the salad about the notorious swashbuckler Oliver North, to float with the coffee dark hints of world-tilting plots yet unexposed...
...capital as a company to process computerized data for other businesses. EDS quickly found a niche processing medical-insurance forms for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas. In 1968, when Perot took his firm public, its revenues were $7.7 million. He managed to persuade underwriters to float less than 10% of the company's stock for a price that was 118 times earnings. He kept most of the rest of the shares and was deemed a billionaire, at least on paper, by age 39. Now he is believed to be worth at least $2.5 billion...
...period of transition, it would be very easy for the rest of the world to say, 'take your time.' But ... they're already a global economic leader, so they aren't going to get as much time as they might like." China may not be in a position to float its currency today, he adds, "but it needs to get itself into that position...