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...participants to graduate from college in three years, it's showing initial signs of success. Other colleges are redoubling their retention efforts. And last fall, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced up to $500 million in grants, aiming to double college-completion rates by 2025. As Sara Goldrick-Rab, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and co-author of the Brookings report, puts it, "Money speaks louder than anything...
Nissim Tse is ready for a fight. For the past five months, Tse, head of trading in Hong Kong for hedge fund RAB Capital, has been torturing his body in preparation for a charity boxing match against some of the city's other hedge-fund managers. The training is bruising, but Tse is happy to participate. After all, the pounding he takes in the ring isn't as dispiriting as the one he has been enduring at work lately. "Going into the office every day is like walking on land mines," Tse says. "This is going to be the worst...
...free track on iTunes, wastes much less time before getting the guitar and bass moving along. Allan sings in an alarmingly effective manner—better described as frantic sprechgesang—and the “ooohs” he gets from supporting vocalist, cousin Rab Allan, add to the dreamlike quality of this and many of the other songs.“It’s My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry” continues with the early rock sound, led by a tambourine. James Allan almost sounds like Mike Skinner as he tries...
...long way from the band's roots in the hard-scrabble streets of Glasgow's East End. Allan, his cousin Rab (guitar), Paul Donoghue (bass) and Caroline McKay (drums) hail from Dalmarnock, a gritty neighborhood where male life expectancy is just 58 years, almost two decades below the British average. The hardest gig, Allan says, was his first, in front of his mother. "Picking up a guitar in the first place was braver than any of the songs that I wrote," says Allan, a semiprofessional footballer until the band took off. "When you're a kid, drinking, playing football...
Glasvegas even tackle one of those subjects you're meant never to bring up in polite company: religion. The band divides along the religious lines of Glasgow's state schools. "I was at a Catholic school, he was at a Protestant school," James says, nodding to his cousin Rab, who has joined him in the bar. "Our mums are twins," adds Rab, without clarifying further. Allan's feelings about this division inform the album's haunting, hymn-like final track Ice Cream Van, a paean to a better place, a world free of sectarianism and hate. It's hard...