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...also an ideology that you'd think, given the track record of trusted financial institutions, people would be a little wary of crowing in public nowadays. But ratings are up. As the rest of the country stews over the mismanagement of insurers and banks, there's still a small, demographically appealing niche for talking heads fulminating against the "demonization" of business and being in favor of laissez-faire government...
...Calgary business leaders, Bush will give his first post--White House address and set the going rate for an audience with a former leader of the free world: a reported $150,000 per speech. That may seem like a lot for a man who left Washington with a record-low 22% approval rating. But it's far from exorbitant on the world's most lucrative lecture circuit--one of the perks that prompted John Updike to dismiss the presidency as "a way station en route to the blessed condition of being an ex-President...
...Phippen, a partner in his family's farm in nearby Manteca, just paid $150 per hive to a Texas supplier. "If we didn't put any bees out here, I think we'd have a crop failure," he says, "and I'm not about to learn." Three years of record yields have depressed almond prices to half their peak; many growers will be lucky to break even this year. Meanwhile, a drought led Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to declare a state of emergency on Feb. 27. Some almond farmers didn't even rent bees this year, figuring they wouldn't have...
...Crimson took the Badgers to hell and back in one of college hockey’s classic battles, and nearly sent the eventual national champions packing before their time. Harvard goalie Brittany Martin, then a sophomore, tied a school record with 67 saves in that game while her teammates exhausted every inch of their bodies’ capabilities to try and come away with a win. Wisconsin ended up eking out a victory, but the Crimson returned to Cambridge with nothing to regret and everything to be proud...
...paralleled the success of indie cohorts Pavement and Built to Spill, among others. And while the former burned out and the latter signed to Warner Brothers by the end of the decade, to this day Yo La Tengo release another charming, if not altogether overwhelming record roughly every three years for the independent Matador imprint. Their latest, 2006’s “I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass,” even proved their most musically consistent, sonically adventurous album since “Heart Beat.”So what does...