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...achieve perfect pitch. Used too much - or when they're not actually singing because, y'know, they're on the news - it makes people sound electronic. Cher was the first to use Auto-Tune in her 1998 hit "Believe," and since then everyone from Kanye West to Faith Hill has gotten by with a little technical assistance. (Auto-Tune isn't always a way to cheat; Daft Punk turned it into another instrument when they wanted to go all futuristic/animated in their video, "One More Time...
...Credit card leaders have powerful friends on Capitol Hill, though, and neither side expects a clean victory. Moderate Democrats and those with major banks with big presences in their states are receiving particular attention from the banking lobby. These include Tom Carper of Delaware and Tim Johnson of South Dakota: Johnson voted against Dodd's bill in committee and Carper is a longtime bank backer...
...loss. Halpern and Martin still top the charts in goals for the season. Halpern sits at 44, with Martin right behind her at 37. Harvard looks for another victory next Thursday, as it takes on local rival Boston College. The game will be in Chestnut Hill at 4:30 and will wrap up the season for the Crimson. “BC is always a good game for us,” Martin said. “We will prepare for this game like any other game, by focusing on the little things. If we do that, we should...
...battle will play out on Capitol Hill is still uncertain. The ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations committee, Indiana's Richard Lugar, is as traditional a conservative as they come, and though he hasn't decided, says an aide, "He always has an inclination in favor of an Administration's pick." Younger members of the committee are on the fence. Bob Corker of Tennessee has been sober in the face of outrage over the International Monetary Fund's use of currency reserves to stabilize the global financial system, a favorite Beck bugaboo. Johnny Isakson of Georgia has an unperturbably conservative...
...banking experience, though, tend to be dubious about market pricing and counsel patience. "The banks have a lot of practice at working out troubled assets, and most other parts of the economy don't," says Gary Townsend, a former bank regulator and industry analyst who runs the hedge fund Hill-Townsend Capital. "So it seems to me you should leave it in the hands of the banks to manage." (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...