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...record of the year shows the way the award is consistently used honorifically, as tribute to the recently-passed artist rather than an actual critical decision as to which album was best. This choice surprised no one, and when the Oscars roll around there will be a similar tacit hunch as to the direction the film academy’s choice will take when Best Actor is announced. This predictability is a shame, as if the academy realized they waited too long for an obligatory “lifetime achievement” award. It bothers me even further that...
...record of the year shows the way the award is consistently used honorifically, as tribute to the recently-passed artist rather than an actual critical decision as to which album was best. This choice surprised no one, and when the Oscars roll around there will be a similar tacit hunch as to the direction the film academy’s choice will take when Best Actor is announced. This predictability is a shame, as if the academy realized they waited too long for an obligatory “lifetime achievement” award. It bothers me even further that...
...services. Nearly 4,000 calls had been placed that summer and early fall to ask the sanitation department to pick up dead crows. The public-health team, knowing that dead birds often mean West Nile is afoot, overlaid maps of 311 calls and human cases of the virus. Their hunch was right: calls to 311 predicted where West Nile was about to hit. So now, each summer, Chicago officials closely watch 311 calls about dead birds and strategically send work crews with larvicide to kill mosquitoes before they hatch and start transmitting the virus. Chicago hasn't had a major...
...trading room at Huaxia Securities, one of mainland China's three biggest brokerage houses, is a place where Beijing residents gather to monitor the stock ticker and hunch over computer keyboards while they buy and sell shares of 1,378 listed Chinese companies. Like casinos, Huaxia supplies VIP rooms to high-stakes customers. After the central government's disclosure last week that China's surging economy registered unexpectedly rapid GDP growth of 9.5% in the fourth quarter of 2004, the VIP rooms should have been buzzing. But they were empty, while the atmosphere in the main room was morose...
...between rich and poor. And she has been aggressive about spreading that gospel, aiming "to make the stock market the subject of dinner-table conversation in the black community." At Ariel, Hobson launched the nation's first ongoing study of African-American investment behavior, calling attention to her hunch that blacks lag behind whites when it comes to investment, planning for retirement and putting money aside for college. The firm also started the Ariel Community Academy, an inner-city Chicago school that teaches elementary school students how to invest. Hobson takes her stump speech-- essentially a crash course in investment...