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...Postcard: Downsizing Detroit" [March 29]: Financially strapped Detroit pays the financial manager of schools $425,000? If they reduced it by three-quarters, they might spend the $300,000 on ... I don't know ... textbooks or teachers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

Some of the highlights of Here Lies Love echo the records Imelda might have danced to at New York discothques a few decades earlier. "Ladies in Blue," a tribute to the pill-popping entourage that surrounded the "Iron Butterfly," as she was known, recalls the cooing stomp of ABBA; Kate Pierson of the B-52s belts "The Whole Man" as if it's one of her own hits. "The text on that one is almost one hundred percent taken from one of Imelda's wackier speeches," Byrne says. "She got into her own kind of cosmology where binary code, zeroes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Imelda Marcos Story — As Told by David Byrne | 4/10/2010 | See Source »

...tried to relaunch her political career, and Here Lies Love is, among other things, an attempt to explain her monomaniacal craving for power and respect: Byrne notes that he'd like listeners to "reluctantly empathize" with his version of her. "Audiences already have a certain amount of knowledge--it might be just the shoes and the money in the Swiss bank accounts. So I have to let people know what drove her to this, and to see if they can see things from her point of view. Which is not to excuse her, but there are human drives and passions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Imelda Marcos Story — As Told by David Byrne | 4/10/2010 | See Source »

While Mel serves as his taskmaster, she also claims she sees the whole ordeal as an “I-told-you-so” waiting to happen, which might be why she flips him off of a couch in one scene...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Building the Ivory Tower | 4/10/2010 | See Source »

Crimsonlist might also be experiencing a lull similar to Crimson Forum, but, according to Fabrizio, this is understandable...

Author: By Janie M. Tankard, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: UC Launches New Online Initiatives | 4/9/2010 | See Source »

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