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...want a medal you have to be a hero,” Mansfield said. “If you want to be a hero, you can’t just stand around, shuffle your feet and keep quiet...
...reading Winesburg, Ohio, I have always felt a certain connection with its unhappy residents, with its quiet streets. Its characters are people whom I’ve known, a hundred years on. Their isolation and misery were mine, genetically; it might actually have been my own, if my parents hadn’t managed to move out of Toledo the year I was born. Small Midwestern towns do not hold the exclusively anthropological interest for me that they do for many Harvard students, who have only flown over them, crossing from blue coast to blue coast. They are not alien...
...chief accounting officer Luciano Del Soldato, a 20-year Parmalat veteran, would continue handling the accounts as a consolation prize for not getting the CFO job. Ferraris reluctantly accepted the division of roles, but wasn't satisfied. So he asked two trusted members of his staff to mount a quiet investigation. After calling around Parmalat's worldwide operations, they came back with shocking news: a total debt estimate of €14 billion, more than double that on the balance sheet. "Until then, I never suspected the accounts were false," says Ferraris. He knew...
...unabashedly digital cut-up of sound clips alongside the air intakes of a beatboxer and poppy organ melodies contrasting with atonal and arrhythmic guitar riffs. The song features possibly the first awesome beatboxing-breakdown in the history of music, and continually eludes predictability with vicissitudes of style and form, quiet regular parts followed by loud irregular parts, and a who-would-have-guessed it fade-out at the end. Considered altogether, the five songs on B EP are extraordinary and delectable sonic morsels, with their calculated intelligence in choice of timing space garnished by the postmodern genre-bending of their...
...opposite is true. And what makes this new disc even more powerful is the way in which “he swallowed my pee” can be followed two songs later by “We Oh We,” which sounds like the “quiet song” at a contemporary church service. If F. Scott Fitzgerald’s maxim about the true test of intelligence can be extended to albums as well, then Mississauga is a pretty damn smart album; but, like all smarts, it’s only bound to appreciated...