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...long time now I imagine that we’ll be doing this. Writing songs and playing shows.” This weekend, Bishop Allen returns to their old Cambridge stomping grounds for a show at the Middle East. They now pop where they used to punk, but lest listeners think that their evolution has only been a musical one, they note that beyond Chaucer as well as “Charm School.” “When I was in college, I used to read a book and write a paper about it,” notes...
...immediate path of their cars. Syndrome sufferers often find it irresistible to talk on their cell phones, munch on a sandwich from Whole Foods, or read the Communist Manifesto while tearing up Broadway at 40 miles per hour. I beg of you—fight the urge, lest you end up sending the next Karl Marx to University Health Services. Yes, it may be expected that we walkers look both ways before we cross, but the maddening preponderance of one-way streets in this city has lulled us into complacency...
Sitrick says companies have to be aggressive about responding to bloggers, lest a minor controversy multiply into a major media scandal. Sitrick employs so-called truth squads in sensitive cases, who monitor blogs for items on clients and quickly counter any false rumors...
...know Kevin Costner had a band? Probably not. That's why Costner is suing his music promoter for, well, nonpromotion. "The lawsuit should have profound implications ... leaving promoters leery of ever taking on another [celebrity band]," notes blogsite DEFAMER, "lest Richard Gere and the Dolly Llamas sue them." SCORE...
...wisdom that consumers are much more likely to voice complaints than praise, recent research finds the opposite. In one study, Andrea Wojnicki, an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Toronto, looked at self-styled experts and found that they were likely to keep negative experiences to themselves, lest their skill--at, say, picking a restaurant--be called into question...