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...week that 2003 was "the year of the turnaround." DT isn't the only telecom dialing up good numbers: a string of other phone companies have reported positive results, including British Telecom, which last week posted a 40% gain in quarterly profits. But phone companies aren't off the hook. BT's €8.1 billion pension hole dwarfs its income. And better profits owe more to cost cutting and asset sales than to underlying performance - €1.7 billion of BT's €4.2 billion income was from the sale of its stake in France's Cegetel. Long-term debt also...
...kids in the pit. With his voice floating over a crisp hurricane of guitar, Moreno sings, "I get all numb/We're the same numb/And it brings our knees to the earth." It's not subtle, but then it doesn't objectify anybody, and it has a winner of a hook. That is probably the most we can ask of nu-metal...
...kill themselves every year no longer fit the stereotype of the jobless, middle-aged salaryman. Suicides are on the rise among young men and women and with the shift in demographics comes a new style of self destruction. Youth are using a bizarre Internet aberration?the suicide site?to hook up with desperate soulmates willing to share their bleak journey. In February, two women and a man, all in their 20s, met on a suicide site and killed themselves in a Saitama apartment. Since then there have been seven similar incidents and 14 deaths...
...With his voice floating over a crisp hurricane of guitar, Moreno sings, "I get all numb/ We're the same numb/ And it brings our knees to the earth." It's not subtle, but then it doesn't objectify anybody, and it has a winner of a hook. That is probably the most we can ask of nu-metal. As for Moreno's lyrics - championed by fans over those of Fred ("Agreeance") Durst and Korn's Jonathan Davis - well, sure, he's the T.S. Eliot of rock's special school. But if you're not grading on a curve...
...week that 2003 was "the year of the turnaround." DT isn't the only telecom dialing up good numbers: a string of other phone companies have reported positive results, including British Telecom, which last week posted a 40% gain in quarterly profits. But phone companies aren't off the hook. BT's €8.1 billion pension hole dwarfs its income. And better profits owe more to cost cutting and asset sales than to underlying performance - €1.7 billion of BT's €4.2 billion income was from the sale of its stake in France's Cegetel. Long-term debt also...