Word: robbed
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...some of its players - will leap forward tremendously," says Rob Mason, managing director of SBI, the British sponsorship consultants. That grating sound you hear is the gnashing of Australian teeth. Banking On A Happy Ending This week, time may finally run out for French billionaire François Pinault, the French government and some other top executives in their decade-long legal fight with U.S. prosecutors over Crédit Lyonnais. In the early 1990s, when the then-state-owned French bank acquired California insurer Executive Life, it allegedly did so in breach of U.S. law forbidding foreign banks from...
...stunt right. There are no guest appearances, no battles—just solemn, celebratory autobiography and anthemic bangers. For that reason, The Black Album is, above all else, elegant. It’s a major achievement for Jay-Z, who has notoriously struggled with focus on previous outings. Mr. Rob may have been right on his intro to Vol. 3, when he said that five, ten years from now, we’re gonna wish there was an American commission. Five, ten years from now, we’re gonna miss Jay-Z. —Leon Neyfakh
...Faust had to undergo a lengthy approval process involving both the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) and the American Repertory Theater (ART). Froehlich discussed with both Marcus Stern, faculty directory of the HRDC, and Rob Orchard, Executive Director of the ART, who were concerned that the students involved in the production were informed and protected...
...along with sophomore Dan Murphy and fellow freshman Steve Mandes played on the third line. And junior Andrew Lederman was situated between seniors Rob Fried and Rob Flynn on the team’s fourth line...
...wrong in many ways. First, it grouped the Rapture with the Liars and !!! as New York “art-damaged punk-disco bands,” failing to recognize the vast difference in the bands’ approaches, and that !!! are in fact from Sacramento. Then reviewer Rob Sheffield alluded to common comparisons between the recent dance-punk bands and late-80s British acid-house, and then declared that “the Happy Mondays sucked.” And then there was the four-star review of the new Strokes album, Room on Fire. Sorry...