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...surprisingly, current events are almost impossible to judge rationally from the headlines. Bill Isaac, former chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, recently described them as a “senseless destruction in the U.S. financial system” and a well-known executive exclaimed on the pages of The Financial Times that “Greenspan’s sins return to haunt us.” Finger-pointing, whining and semi-fake expressions of compassion with homeowners are all mixed in print and the airwaves with serious analysis. A surefire recipe for confusion has thus emerged. Although many...
Click here for an excerpt from Isaac's Storm, Erik Larson's book on the 1900 hurricane...
...actually here as a sophomore living in Currier when it all started,” he said, explaining that the tradition began when the late archaeology professor Glynn L. Isaac, an expert in the Paleolithic period, decided in the early 1980s to combine the African tradition of roasting goats with the educational experience of making stone tools...
...Hayes' imposing frame, and a stare that managed to intimidate and seduce, made the songwriter a natural for performing. Oddly, his first LP was the jazz-inflected, discursive Presenting Isaac Hayes. Not until Hot Buttered Soul in 1969 did he connect with the public, and even this album contained several cuts that ran 8 to 10 mins. He'd take a Burt Bacharach song and spin it into soul-improv infinity, or begin his version of Jimmy Webb's By the Time I Get to Phoenix with an 8-min. monologue. Whether singing or speaking, the man could hold...
...machine can break down. He leaves behind one widow, three ex-wives, 12 children, 14 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. That's quite a legacy right there. Beyond that, he leaves an artistic personality that will keep insinuating itself into the body politic and making it dance. For Isaac Hayes was the pulse of sexual liberation, the erotic sound of black power, the voice of our best bad thoughts...