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...which lines came from a real Pitchfork review and which didn't; "for every bold crescendo, an incongruous tangent can disrupt the music's linearity" was, unfortunately, real) but despite its haughty attitude, the website knows what it's doing. A glowing review from Pitchfork can launch a band onto the college radio charts and beyond - a 9.7 (out of 10) review of Arcade Fire's 2004 The Funeral propelled the album onto the Billboard 200. It sold so many copies that the album went out of print for a week. Conversely, a devastating review can kill an album...
...events took a turn for the worse. Negative reports on consumer default rates and troubling statistics on commercial loans unnerved investors. Two moves by Citi - taking $80 billion in risky assets off the auction block and transferring some mortgage-related securities held in an off-balance-sheet vehicle back onto its books - spooked shareholders already wary of what unknowns might be lurking. On Nov. 18, the company announced that it would be laying off about 50,000 of its employees, or 20% of its global workforce...
...Third, we have poverty reduction and development. Development is a goal that people like to tack onto other projects. Conservation and development is a prominent example in East Africa. Now there is alternative energy and development. Unfortunately, combining goals can occur at the expense of both endeavors. For example, biofuel production will supposedly create jobs for Tanzanians, but when I spoke with SEKAB, a Swedish biofuel company, they told me production would be mechanized, requiring fewer workers. If they truly want to meet “development” goals, biofuel companies would have to make choices that...
Ibrahim vaulted onto the international stage in 2003 after defending and ultimately winning an acquittal for Amina Lawal, a Nigerian woman sentenced to death for committing adultery, said History Professor Caroline Elkins during her introductory remarks...
...Today, both Eck and Storus say they see a Harvard that is more diverse than ever. Storus said he seeks to represent the increasingly heterogeneous student population with an architecture that brings this openness to a figurative level. Storus’ design features futuristic glass-pane windows that open onto large, spacious courtyards where students, professors, and community members would come together.“The old Houses represent a totally different political relationship between the student and the professors or student to student, wherein you’re kind of subsumed into a larger image...