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...synonyms for corny?) But Jackson is a sentimentalist with a minimalist's taste in lyrics, so tracks like The Firefly's Song ("I don't want you like I used to/ This old man wants you more") feel honest, especially when sung in his regal baritone. Fellow minimalist Alison Krauss produces, and bans take-it-up-a-notch! key changes and swollen strings. What's left is something worthy of a really good antonym...
...both popular and critical, and he's only 29. A somewhat partisan sampling would also include Colson Whitehead (The Intuitionist), 36; Edwidge Danticat (Breath, Eyes, Memory), 37; Dave Eggers (You Shall Know Our Velocity), 36; Arthur Phillips (Prague), 37; Curtis Sittenfeld (Prep), 30; Myla Goldberg (Bee Season), 34; Nicole Krauss (The History of Love), 31; and Gary Shteyngart (Absurdistan), 33. If we open our borders to the Brits, we also get Zadie Smith (On Beauty), who at 30 is probably her generation's consensus No. 1 seed, as well as Monica Ali (Brick Lane), 39, and David Mitchell (Black Swan...
...studies that debunked beta-carotene supplements as cancer fighters a few years ago--it may turn out that phytochemicals work only in tandem with one another or with other chemicals found in foods. Trying to isolate the "active ingredient" might be a fool's errand. Says Dr. Ronald Krauss, a nutrition and cholesterol researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab: "It's premature to interpret that research in any way other than you should eat more fruits and vegetables...
...academic politics, however, Harvard appears to be quite the trendsetter. As their counterparts at Harvard did last year, the faculty of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio affirmed a no-confidence motion of their own against University President Edward M. Hundert on March 2. Physics professor Lawrence M. Krauss spearheaded the motion to protest Hundert’s alleged fiscal mismanagement in closing a $40 million budget shortfall. Did the Summers ouster influence faculty members at Case Western? “Harvard’s faculty are particularly outspoken,” Krauss says, though the answer seems...
...fiscal difficulties, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. Hundert has been criticized for his handling of fund-raising efforts and the university’s budget. The university faces a $40-million budget deficit this fiscal year, according to the report. Professor of Physics Lawrence M. Krauss, who circulated a petition among faculty calling for a no-confidence vote, said yesterday that he was “shocked by the overwhelming nature” of faculty support for the motion. The Case faculty vote came a little more than a week after Summers’ resignation...