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...couple of years ago, a business-development guy at Bloomberg named Bo Moon was getting crushed in his fantasy-basketball league. So while commuting from New Jersey into Bloomberg's Manhattan offices, Moon and a car-pool colleague, Jay B. Lee, started wondering what would happen if the company applied its core expertise, the supply of real-time financial analytics to Wall Street traders, to sports statistics. (And while spending hours stuck in New York City-area rush-hour traffic, they had plenty of time to ponder.) After all, in many ways fantasy teams are similar to stock portfolios, with...
...happened to be one of Cablevision's 3.1 million subscribers in New York, New Jersey or Connecticut on Sunday, you missed some classic TV: a closeup of Academy Award winner Mo'Nique's hairy legs on Barbara Walters' Oscar special, Kathy Ireland's freaky posture on the red carpet and Neil Patrick Harris singing about why inmates drop soap. That's because ABC cut off the signal of its New York City station to Cablevision subscribers just after midnight on Sunday morning, in a dispute over "retransmission fees," the money the cable company pays for carrying local broadcast stations...
...More Perfect Union,” the album’s sprawling seven-minute opener, sets the tone for the narrative. Sickles sets in with loud vocals summarizing a journey out of Titus Andornicus’ native New Jersey into the American unknown. Cynically invoking Springsteen, he screams, “I’m looking for a new New Jersey / Cause tramps like us / Baby we were born to die.” Driving guitar riffs and drum beats move the song forward, as the song builds to a climaxing chorus. Lyrics continuously question the anxiety and angst...
...named after the Civil War clash between the Monitor and the Merrimack, but actually it focuses mainly on 20th Century concerns. Sickles proclaims “I’m destroying everything that would make me like Bruce Springsteen / So I’m going back to New Jersey / I do believe they’ve had enough of me.” By directly disavowing this connection, Titus Andronicus only strengthen it, making this album a statement about the New Jersey and America of our times, a more furious, sardonic Springsteen for the 2010s...
...first nine games of the season, the Harvard men’s volleyball team (1-9, 1-1 EIVA Hay Division) finally came away with a much-needed victory after splitting two games this weekend with Stevens Institute of Technology and the New Jersey Institute of Technology...