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...even facetious in its own testosterone-connoting nature, has now become commonplace and far more widespread than locker rooms and athletes’ suites. It’s like The Cranberries said: Even everybody else is doing it. Rage, that is. Not to be confused with “rave,” of course, a very mid-nineties word (think Empire Records and Claire Danes) that defined an all-night party, usually in a warehouse-like club, most likely featuring numbing techno, and almost always involving drugs and military boots with baby-doll dresses. Raging is a far more...
Many a Sunday brunch has been ruined when I open the New York Times—eager to read an in-depth feature about this month’s offerings at the Museum of Modern Art—but find instead a rave review about an opening in Berlin. The college student who can barely afford an online Times Select subscription surely cannot hop a plane to Paris/London/Bilbao—why must Nicholas Ouroussoff tempt me so? Like the unnaturally blue bagels left beside the toaster, so too is the Times’ Arts section rejected when they insist...
...once again an independent country, the last prisoners have gone, and one Friday night last month, the fortress was literally pulsating with a new kind of energy as hundreds of Tallinn youngsters, some speaking Russian, others Estonian, packed into the place for an ear-splitting all-night techno rave. "It was an experiment, the first time we've done this," says Andrus Villem, the Patarei's project manager, who wants to exorcise the ghosts of the past by turning the fortress into an impromptu arts center. The party is a tailor-made metaphor for Estonia itself: freed from the confines...
...Murphy said. “They’re not tall, but Matt Curtis and Mike Berg, they run like linebackers.”TURF TALK The game marked the first on Harvard’s new FieldTurf surface, installed over the summer. It opened to rave reviews from both Murphy and senior running back Clifton Dawson.“It felt great,” Dawson said. “You feel faster, you feel confident in your footing. Those are things that are important as a running back. You know that, ‘Hey, when I make...
...symbolizes that shift. During the go-go bubble years, Quattrone was the go-to guy at Credit Suisse First Boston (now called Credit Suisse) for tech deals. After the government started looking into how bankers set aside shares of promising IPOs for favored clients and pressured analysts to issue rave reports about companies that often had no way of making money, Quattrone sent an e-mail reminding colleagues to "clean up" old files, per company policy. The Justice Department viewed that as obstruction of justice, since it had already started investigating IPOs involving Credit Suisse. One jury was divided...