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...discomfiting stage presence recalls Joy Division’s Ian Curtis. Whether or not you want to move closer, you’re drawn in—as promised, Maxïmo burns through hooks at their own light-speed velocity. The verses are obliquely scientific but the closing mantra gets personal: “Love is a lie, which means I’ve been lied to / Love is a lie, which means I’ve been lying too,” snarls Smith. He’s a victim and a criminal, which makes sense: these guys...
...bunker-like office in University Hall, a well-trained, tenacious team is devising plans for an international takeover. Armed with flashy pamphlets, milk-chocolate globes, and undergraduate peer advisors, active efforts by the Office of International Programs (OIP) are underway to spread the study abroad mantra...
Although the calendar said that this past Wednesday was Valentine’s Day, many of us observed a different holiday: S.A.D.—Singles Awareness Day. Despite constant repetition of the mantra “Valentine’s Day is a Hallmark scam,” we spent the day in secret, inconsolable inner turmoil. Now that the weekend is here, we can finally take advantage of that tried and true emotional balm: alcohol. And what better way to enjoy our loneliness than with a bottle of pink champagne (or any spirituous beverage), and the 2004 romantic...
...what is he selling to salespeople? A traditional amalgam of positive thinking, self-improvement and persistence. He hammers in these virtues like a drill sergeant after his sixth cup of coffee. (His mantra "People don't like to be sold, but they love to buy" is restated a few pages later as "Selling is puking. Your customer wants to buy.") Despite the occasional coarseness (he proudly claims to have "edited out one thing, all the bull____"), Gitomer's books have a certain blustery earnestness. They are the kind of books that Willy Loman would have proudly stuffed in his coat...
...manner and timing of his departure. It won't be easy. The investigation trundles on, although detectives appear to have shifted their focus from the original accusations of corruption toward the possibility that some of those questioned may have deceived investigators. (World-weary Washingtonians may now recite that old mantra: "It's never the crime. It's the cover-up.") Blair is determined not to stand down before the inquiry reaches a conclusion, believing this would be interpreted as an admission of guilt. But the longer the case goes on, the longer it encourages those who just can't stand...