Word: roach
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...ride from the airport to my hotel. Ahhh, I'm feeling at home already. I'm in town to cover the Rock in Rio Festival, a two-weekend-long extravaganza (January 12-14, January 18-21) featuring a wide array of international acts (Beck, Sting, Papa Roach, Dave Matthews Band, Britney Spears) as well as Brazilian acts (Gilberto Gil, Daniela Mercury, Carlinhos Brown, Tom Ze, Nacao Zumbi). The organizers have billed it as one of the largest concerts in history, with five stages, more than 150 acts scheduled and more than one million attendees expected. One report boasted that...
...from Ipanema," Heloisa Eneida Pinto, and she used to stroll "like a samba" past the bar every so often on her way to Ipanema Beach, and her "tall and tan/and young and lovely" looks inspired Jobim and Moraes. Now, with Rock in Rio in town, the guys from Papa Roach could be at the Garota de Ipanema right now, getting inspired to write a song about kicking some guy's ass. That's progress...
...close to me/until the final flicker of life's ember..." It's a song, I think, that will stand as long as the mountain stands - it's that good. Are there acts at Rock in Rio that are producing musical art that's as worthwhile? I mean, besides Papa Roach...
...world, intervening to minimize the damage in the Asian financial crises of 1997 and the Russian debt shock of 1998. But as faster communication brings the world closer together, "it raises the risk of a globalized synchronized recession," says Morgan Stanley Dean Whitter chief global economist Stephen Roach. "We're already seeing that unfold as we speak...
...technology would raise productivity. Higher productivity would raise workers' income without fueling inflation. Well-paid workers would buy more, leading to more production. It was going to be a virtuous cycle that spun only upward. Well, it just hasn't worked that way. "The biggest surprise," says economist Roach, "is that the business cycle is back--New Economy...