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...Life Is a Succession of People Saying Goodbye”—the track most recalling The Smiths with its jangly Johnny Marr guitar—highlights Morrissey’s idiosyncratic singing until a harp budges in and confuses the mood. The depressive lyrics hit a little too close to home, as Morrissey seems somewhat conscious of his own recent mediocrity: “At one time the future / Did stretch out before me / But now / It stretched behind...

Author: By Shijung Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Morissey | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...with nothing but a headache to keep me company, I reflected upon my physical state. I did not know, and still do not know, if I had swine flu: at the time, UHS was not equipped to identify H1N1. But, ,if it was swine flu, it certainly did not hit me with the force that overeager media outlets had portended. I had been able to walk to UHS independently, and although my sudden fever was a source of constant consternation, this was not the worst illness that I had ever dealt with, just the one currently in vogue...

Author: By Derrick Asiedu | Title: Life in the Pen | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

Zinta, who already spends a significant amount of time in the United States, told the Indian media she decided to hit the books to enhance her experience in the country...

Author: By EESHA D. DAVE, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Indian Actress To Enroll At HBS | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...ribbony paper out the window was a fun way to celebrate. They first did it on Oct. 29, 1886, inspired by the ceremony to dedicate the Statue of Liberty. The practice was still a novelty 10 years later, when the New York Times reported that office workers had "hit on a new and effective scheme of adding to the decorations" at a parade for presidential candidate William McKinley by unfurling hundreds of ticker-tape reels out the window. (See the best and worst sports executives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ticker-Tape Parades | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...measures to try to stop the spread of flu. She has made every effort to appear on top of the situation, personally going to meet a shipment of the H1N1 vaccine Tamiflu at Kiev's airport on Monday. One doctor who asked not to be named in the hard-hit Lviv region praised the Prime Minister's actions. "Politicians are aggravating the situation by making so much noise," she tells TIME. In addition, Glenn Thomas, a spokesman for the WHO team that's been dispatched to Kiev to assist Ukrainian authorities, says the government's response had been "transparent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swine-Flu Panic in Ukraine: Crisis or Political Ploy? | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

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