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...bulls were really running last week. From consumers to financiers, nearly everyone was celebrating the belief that the economy is kicking into high gear. Thanks to low inflation, the boom machine could hum smoothly for years. Carl Icahn, TWA's new chairman and top stockholder, struggles with a strike and mounting losses. The World Bank's new lender in chief...
...annual growth rate, is accelerating to a faster pace of 3% or more. Even better, many experts think the industrial world's economies are entering a new era, in which low oil prices are triggering a whole series of positive trends, thus creating a boom machine that could hum smoothly for several years...
They gather one by one, trickling into the shady courtyard, the familiar hum of Mass. Ave. wafting in from behind brick buildings and iron gates. Some haven’t seen each other in years; others have arrived with blockmates and best friends. In a few weeks, they’ll scatter once again. But on this day in late May, one group of seniors will take a last look at their first impression of Harvard...
...that X&Y has a serious problem-or rather a problem with seriousness. While Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman and drummer Will Champion took inspiration from the U2 of The Unforgettable Fire, lead singer Chris Martin appears to have made the terrible mistake of shooting for Bono circa Rattle and Hum. It's not Martin's choice of subject matter-he rarely digresses into politics while he's singing, although he's an advocate for fair trade when he's not-but his tone. He wants to teach us how to feel better about ourselves, and his lessons have the moral...
...Rabbit “Three-Finger” Waddell in the late 1800s, “walk-up music” first took root in the ancient sport of baseball. But without the technological capacity of today’s state-of-the-art venues, Waddell was forced to hum the latest ditties as he “walked up” to the batter?...