Word: rutting
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...Harvard campus. “When I was abroad, I felt so alive. I did everything. I went to bed happy and woke up psyched about the day,” says Michael T. Peller ’02. “I find myself getting in a rut now at Harvard because the students here are rather unfriendly. People are too busy to say hello, too busy to stop and enjoy themselves. The people I met while studying abroad were generally upbeat, easygoing people, especially the people I met while traveling. I miss that the most...
...farmers' rut is a small one compared to that of manufacturing, the heart of the Japanese miracle. Yahaba, a town of 21,000 north of Tokyo, was once an electronics boomtown, home to an Aiwa compact-disc factory and six other manufacturers. In January, loss-making Aiwa shut down the plant - and all of its factories in Japan. "People working there, at first, said, oh, this won't affect us," says Genkichi Kon, who operated a snack shop inside the plant. "But gradually, one by one, people were restructured [translation: fired]." Two other factories have also closed. "People...
...understand upheaval. After spending childhood pinballing between his birthplace of Detroit and Louisiana, Benson eventually settled in Oakland, California, where in the mid-1990s he was discovered by Virgin Records and signed to a multi-album deal. Benson’s 1996 debut, Mississippi One, fell into the familiar rut of being critically acclaimed but commercially shunned, due in part to troubles with the record company. His first record has gone out of print, but since its release, Benson has switched labels and released a new album, Lapalco. With this new beginning, his career, one that began with so much...
...while McCartney is writing music with more soul than he has been able to muster for some time, Jagger, one of rock's most distinctive vocalists, is settling into a bland rut on Goddess in the Doorway (Virgin). From the anthemic Joy to the discolike Everybody Getting High, the music is generally as soft and slick as last month's pumpkin pie, with Jagger's long-suffering voice, which still has a lot of charm, blanketed in 21st century synthesized beats and airy piano lines supplied in part by au courant collaborators like Wyclef Jean. The strongest feeling it drives...
...Other schools seemed like they were stuck in the same rut of playing football the way they were 25 years ago,” Staph adds. “But Harvard and Penn were the two that were different...