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When it comes to reviewing, if you want erudition, lucidity and fine judgment, read George Bernard Shaw on classical music or Alfred Kazin on books. But for sheer pinwheeling, exclamation-pointed opinion, there is no beating the regular folk who have popped up all over the Internet. Everywhere in cyberspace there are Web pages where do-it-yourself critics hold forth about movies, books, music and restaurants, to say nothing of airlines, power tools, and disposable diapers. What you discover at these sites is generally heartfelt and sometimes well informed and well written. Or breathless, obvious and ungrammatical--that...
...Here?s what I knew. I knew that I sat down with the NIH experts, people charged to follow the developments in this field. And their opinion, upon which I based my judgment, was that there are ample stem cell lines to determine whether future research is merited...
...Long rates are where the leverage is. Cut them too much, and you risk putting so much buying power in people's hands that inflation kicks up disastrously. Which is why it is best to leave long rates in the hands of the market, where a collective judgment is better than any one person...
...perceived incompatibility of these genres was more than musical; it was subcultural. The cheerleader listened to pop, the wannabe-street kid listened to rap, the aspiring Sundance auteur with the sideways haircut listened to punk. When the genres did mix, like on the soundtrack for the forgettable 1993 thriller Judgment Night, it was with breathless pomp and circumstance (News flash: Pearl Jam rockin' and Cypress Hill rappin' on the same track! Very likely kicking back and sharing a doobie!). Now, not only is there nothing remarkable about a band that stirs rock, rap and pop into the same song...
...JUDGMENT CALL It's beautiful, bizarre, and can be worth a bomb...