Word: raves
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...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...
...Grant, for which he won an Emmy). But he was best known for his stage work, in particular his moving turn as a poor gardener who, having just died, haunts his foster son in the 1978 Broadway hit Da. The role won him a Tony and a rare rave from notoriously cranky critic John Simon, who compared him to the "Gielguds, Oliviers and Richardsons...
...RIDE THEM? High-rank surfers rave about the flex; they can be custom shaped...