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...repeated phrases--"Find a cure/Find a cure for my life" in the verse and "Oh my God" in the chorus. One lyric is a prayer for control; the other a realization that she has none, and Maria plays the former like someone meditating before a hurricane and the latter like the hurricane itself. She roars from the back of her throat, timing the G in God to the crash of the snare and the shriek of the guitar. With a backing band seemingly as crazy and hellbent as she is, it's a haymaker of a song...
...February compared with the same month in 2008; China's exports were down 26% in February. The World Trade Organization is predicting global trade will shrink by 9% this year, the steepest annual decline since World War II. This contraction is not only deep, it is also a latter-day rarity: global trade has increased continuously year after year since 1982. (Read "The Threat of a Global Trade...
...archetype as its foundation—the bildungsroman—but the storyline quickly diverges from cliché to downright bizarre. The novel, narrated from the young Genie’s perspective, struggles to maintain a balance between reliability and believability, and, in satisfying the former, sometimes compromises the latter. Genie is a precocious preteen with a high IQ and a whole host of anger issues. He was held back a year after he punched his fifth grade art teacher. He has no friends. In truth, it’s hard for him to communicate with people at all. When...
...After a day or two of thrashing AIG and its employees, Congress and the Treasury can pretend to use government bailout money to pay the government back. Or, they can hang on to the issue because it makes for a good political circus. If the latter path is the preferred plan, the business of putting hundreds of billions of dollars into the economy to save it from a deepening recession can be put off to the side of the agenda and the most important work of the Administration can be delayed...
...teams do have options for funding assistance built into the Harvard extracurricular net—most notably the UC grants available to all clubs. Ultimate Frisbee applies for the UC retroactive grants, and it gains some support from the Athletic Department’s club sports fund. However, the latter source only covers two tournament fees for the frisbee team, and for cheerleaders, the budget is exhausted after traveling to (required) away football games. Whether it be selling frisbees or advertising cheergrams, club sports teams must therefore find some way to provide for their hefty costs...