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...album’s 13 tracks aren’t just instrumentally sparser than past material; put simply, they’re also just not as catchy. Part of the problem is that they fail to develop their austere plucking into any grander themes, as the best selections from previous albums have managed to do. On 2004’s “I’d Rather Dance With You,” still their most perfectly crafted pop song to date, a stair-stepping piano outro elevates a jaunty beat to perfection; on 2001?...
...power as a counterweight to Harvard’s traditional decentralization. He decides which interdisciplinary, multi-school initiatives the University should undertake—for example, between the Medical School, the Law School, and the College. And with Faust preoccupied by the financial crisis and appearing to lack a grander vision for the University, some see Hyman as the flag-bearer for her predecessor’s ambitious plans, continuing pricey initiatives in stem cell research and other sciences...
...foreign policy is concerned, there is no difference. The Administration is correct. But U.S. support for the reform movement need not be centered solely around Mousavi. While he is the fulcrum now of daily protests, the movement he represents is much larger, more complex and has much grander aspirations for change in Iran...
...ponied up eagerly, for their business, their very existence, was threatened by another technological marvel - TV - that was keeping customers at home, getting drama, variety shows and old films for free. Movie houses were turned into video amusement parks: the image on the giant screens was suddenly wider (CinemaScope), grander (Cinerama), clearer (VistaVision) and deeper (3D) than ever before. The idea was to lure people back to theaters by giving them an experience that couldn't be duplicated in the living room. It didn't work: the number of tickets sold dropped from an all-time high of 4 billion...
...moderate Democrats in Congress may douse some of Obama's grander ambitions. As infuriating as that is to progressives eager to seize on this "good crisis," it's a natural by-product of giving the vote to Americans who live in coal-burning, oil-drilling, far-driving and heavy-manufacturing regions. One such place is Indiana, whose Democratic Senator, Evan Bayh, will be tough to sell every line of the Obama budget to. "I've spent some time with the President, and my strong impression of him is, at the end of the day, he's a pragmatist," Bayh says...