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When the rock 'n' roll pianist and former Ben Folds Five frontman recorded his new solo album, Way to Normal, he knew it would get leaked to the Internet, so he went ahead and did it himself - well, sort of. This summer, Folds released six "fake" songs on the Internet and pretended that they were tracks off his album. The fake songs bore the same titles as tracks on the album, but contained completely different lyrics and music. The real Way to Normal dropped on Sept. 30; the fake versions are available wherever music is freely downloaded. Folds talked...
...open to him on how to unclog the credit markets, which Senator Judd Gregg, the top negotiator on the bill for Senate Republicans, described as a massive car accident in the middle of the highway. The government must clear the accident away by buying the toxic debt so that normal traffic can flow freely. One avenue will be to do a reverse auction, where banks compete to sell the Treasury their bad paper, with the Treasury choosing the lowest offers. The Treasury may also directly negotiate with companies, though no one knows exactly how that will work...
...Philadelphia on Saturday, but the worst the Crimson faced was a light drizzle in the second half. There were times when Mann struggled to corral a ball or two, being forced to punch out others, but for the most part, the team was able to play at a normal pace. “The conditions were surprising, it just drizzled in the second half,” Leone said. “We were able to play fine.” Harvard continues its Ivy slate against rival Yale next Saturday at Ohiri Field. —Staff writer Walter...
...fact that she has played it for so long helps to explain the apparent ease with which she has handled the intensity of the campaign. "When you're a person like me, who steps outside the normal boundaries of what their life is supposed to be like - say, going to Princeton - you're worried that maybe you're not prepared, because everybody has told you you probably won't be, and then you get there and you're like, I'm prepared." She laughed. "I think many of us are more prepared for certain situations than we imagine...
...brain is supposed to develop that it was impossible to figure out where things might be going wrong. In a way, the vast project that has become his life's work is nothing more than an attempt to establish a gigantic control group. "It turned out that normal brains were so interesting in themselves," he marvels. "And the adolescent studies have been the most surprising...