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There's nothing like an external enemy to make a country pull together, and Britain, fractious and dissatisfied with its Labour government until recently, has found a fresh foe: Iceland. The tiny country's benign image as a land of geysers and the midnight sun has been swiftly eclipsed by its new incarnation as the mustache-twirling villain of the credit crunch. Britons - from private individuals to local government, charities and public bodies - have deposited some $34 billion in Iceland's financial institutions, among them Landsbanki, which went into receivership this week, and Kaupthing, the country's biggest bank, which...
...being put on watch for a possible credit-rating downgrade, signaling that the broader economy is on much shakier ground than everyone thought. Or could it even have been the much vilified short-sellers of financial stocks, back in the market after a 14-day ban expired Wednesday at midnight...
Unfortunately, it’s when Morello gets specific that “The Fabled City” falls apart. “Midnight in the City of Destruction” has pretensions towards being a damning indictment of the Bush administration, but its fury is more bizarre than infectious. At one point Morello sings, “I pray that God himself will come and drown the President if the levees break again,” yet he spends much of the song filling space with pointless “la, la, las,” which leads...
mbridge at midnight for a 24-hour trip to Washington D.C. to hear two Supreme Court cases and meet with Justice David H. Souter ’61 next Tuesday. In preparation for the excursion, former Vermont Supreme Court Chief Justice Jeffrey L. Amestoy and Harvard Law Professors Noah R. Feldman and Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr. discussed the context and facts of the two cases in Lowell House library last night...
...they create much of the mood and ambience. Barber’s use of loops and syncopated rhythms covers everything from the sounds of the tribal and primordial to the modern and futuristic. The sixth track alone takes the listener on an excursion from the calm landscape to the midnight jungle, offering a perfect transition into the seventh track “Namer.” On eighth track “Golden,” the overall sound lends itself more to that of the traditional music of China, with the pentatonic motifs and Chinese instrumentation. The album?...