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Accelerate is awfully good--if not quite great--but what's indisputable is that it goes by fast. Producer Garret (Jacknife) Lee, who worked on U2's "still-got-it!" record, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, thereby earning a Ph.D. in jarring legends from complacency, grasped that making an album that didn't stop to think would solve R.E.M.'s two biggest problems: Stipe's tendency toward romantic drift and Buck's stunted, decadelong desire to plug in his guitar and blow people away. Dispensing with dirge-y ballads and long musical bridges to nowhere, Accelerate clocks...
...second time he met Obama also involved sports. At a baseball game, one of Lee’s friends was eating French fries. The Senator came over and took some fries from him, promising he would pay the friend back. At the end of the game, Lee says, Obama made good on his promise and bought Lee’s friend another batch of fries...
...Lee compares his transition back to Harvard to being in a kiddie pool after swimming in an ocean...
...It’s very hard to be here in a classroom working on a problem set when all my friends and coworkers are working to make him president,” Lee said...
...Lee says he has come to see that the Obama campaign was similar in some ways to his campaign for UC vice president: he sees them as sharing messages of idealism and hope...