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...became a Christian, he re-became a Jew. His mature work of genius, Blood on the Tracks, came out of nowhere in 1975. There were other albums that were not so good--but it was all fascinating, all infused with Dylan's lacerating intelligence. If it stuck in your head like a toothache, the dentist was also providing some dreamy nitrous oxide...
...formals on campus ($15 for a couple, $10 per person), HoCo didn't seem to skimp on anything. There was a fortune teller (yeah...), delicious snacks, and everything was meticulously decorated. After walking over a "magic carpet" to enter, you could go to the "harem"-themed library. Or, just head straight for the relatively empty dining hall to swing dance or the packed upper common room to grind on your date. And everyone else standing near...
...egos better than Daly, who won 638 games over 13 NBA seasons. Just look at Daly's Bad Boys, the thuggish band of Detroit Pistons who elbowed, kicked, brawled, their way to back-to-back NBA titles in 1989 and 1990. Great teams often take the character of their head coach but, in Detroit's case, the polar opposite was true. Within basketball, no one disparaged Daly. He was a blue-collar Pennsylvania guy who just worked his way up the coaching tree, from Punxsutawney (Pa.) High School, to Penn, where he won four straight Ivy League titles...
What's the big news? The big news is that Trevor Manuel, finance minister since 1996, stays - but in a new role, as head of a new planning commission which will act as watchdog and overseer of all government departments. This is good. Manuel is widely respected inside and outside South Africa and is credited as the man who created the conditions, before the global downturn, for South Africa's economy to grow by close to 5% a year. Manuel has long complained that while he built government resources, other departments squandered them. Fifteen years since the end of apartheid...
...replaces Manuel at Finance? Pravin Gordhan, former head of South Africa's tax authority. This is more good news. Tax compliance has long been a problem in South Africa. But Gordhan has got more people to pay more tax, raising the tax base by around 10% every year since he was appointed in 1999. He is respected by the markets and his appointment should go some way to reassuring them that Manuel's departure won't spell chaos...