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...want to buy bonds backed by consumer loans. Even better, some of the TALF loans won't have to be paid back. If the bonds pay as expected, investors will have to repay the government loans with interest. But if the bonds go bust, investors are off the hook, after losing the small down payment they made on the original loan. To limit taxpayer losses, the government is going to make loans only against bonds rated AAA, the highest rank...
From there, Welcome to Mali becomes a more standard Amadou and Mariam affair, which is to say it's a joyous, hook-filled guitar album with impressive range. Amadou grew up as the biggest Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple fan in Bamako, and while he knows how to mimic the sounds of a kora and slip into high-stepping township jive, he's most at home using African styles to flavor rock melodies. "Ce N'Est Pas Bon" is stomping garage rock, while "Bozos" could be a particularly happy Neil Young song. Everything has a familiar pop structure, but there...
...civility of a kinder and gentler era. Where once the university quadrangles resounded with the tipsy warbling of De Brevitate Vitae or other commercium songs, now only the echoes of mass-market electronic recordings disturb the silence of Saturday evenings. Beer pong has replaced banter, courtship has yielded to hook-ups, pot is preferred to pipe tobacco. The choice of drink, and the style in which it is quaffed, is likewise illustrative: watery beer or cheap liquor, impurities masked by the syrupy sweetness of sodas and juices, downed in furtive binges. The goal is not to lubricate conversation or ease...
...another success. Reclaiming her “Since U Been Gone”-era style, Clarkson screams her lungs out throughout the entire album, yet keeps her songs accessible and fun. She continues to crank out boy-bashing girl power tunes, like “I Do Not Hook Up,” in which she declares: “Oh, no, I do not hook up, up / I go slow / So if you want me, I don’t come cheap / Keep your hand in my hand / And your heart on your sleeve.” Clarkson?...
...Mullery used his full arsenal of moves in the post against a thin Harvard front-line. He mixed in a steady stream of back-downs with spin moves and hook shots, always finishing with a feathery touch. Towards the end of the first half, the 6’8 junior even stepped behind the three-point line and buried a trey...