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...because "it's hot and sexy." Hawthorne Savings Bank attracted $1.5 million in deposits from customers after it advertised its newly installed electric-car chargers. EV1 drivers have even founded a club and a Website. "This is no martyr mobile for environmentalists," says club vice president Marvin Rush. "This car outperforms most gas cars...
...Christmas concert dedicated to music from the British Isles. The three groups performed separately first, followed by a joint Glee Club/RCS performance of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Mass in G Minor and concluding with all three groups singing Vaughan Williams' "God Bless the Master." Between each section, conductors Jameson Marvin and Constance DeFotis invited the audience to stand and sing Christmas carols with the choirs. It was difficult for those in the audience to refrain from applauding until the very end of the concert, despite the explicit instruction on the programs...
From the moment that pianist Suzanne MacAllister stepped on stage and began to play "Infant Holy, Infant Lowly," the Radcliffe Choral Society impressed with its delivery and precision. In Benjamin Britten's "Missa Brevis in D," the women, under the direction of Marvin, achieved a beautiful blend of harmonies and melodic progressions. It is a difficult piece, but the group pulled it off with wonderful mastery--particularly in the "Sanctus," with its unusual layering of voices progressing up a scale. Alto soloist Kate Kraft acquitted herself well in this movement...
...Harvard Glee Club followed, and as always, their energy and stage presence had an immediate, inspiring effect on the audience. In Harvard math professor Noam Elkie's arrangement of "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear," the Glee Club delivered some fabulous consonants--a point that Marvin clearly, and successfully, labors on with his choirs. Continuing on a high note, the warm, resounding harmonies of "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming," thrilled the ear. Finally, in the Thomas Tallis "Sanctus" from the "Mass for Four Voices," the group sang with such conviction and enthusiasm that one could imagine Tallis wishing...
...could get pushed into depression by the financial crises in Southeast Asia, which gets nearly 40% of all Japanese exports. More alarming, roughly one-third of all loans in Southeast Asia--many now in default--came from fragile Japanese financial institutions. Says University of Chicago political economist Marvin Zonis: "To raise needed liquidity, they might sell their holdings of Treasury securities." Since Japan owns more U.S. Treasury debt than any other nation (more than $300 billion), a sell-off would cause U.S. interest rates to climb, which would bludgeon stock prices and endanger America's economic expansion. The yen could...