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...Tracy Chapman cover, but it’s almost verbatim “Little Red Corvette.” Linn drum-machine beats and handclaps abound: sonically, it’s a cute little Prince homage. But everything that made “Corvette” top-shelf pop is missing here. The-Dream doesn’t have Prince’s vocal chops, and “Fast Car” can’t match the feverish intensity of its predecessor. Not to mention the fact that “Corvette” was, plain and simple...
Last summer, searching for a way to wile away the hours after failing to line up a summer job, I turned to the “Serious Books” shelf of my bookcase. Stocked with classics like “The Brothers Karamazov” and “Moby Dick,” it’s the place where I put all of the thick, intimidating (mostly Russian) novels relatives have given...
...Often, we write these books because we go to the shelf and they’re not there,” she said. But in this case, “It was a long, long time before I went to a shelf and didn’t find this book there—I didn’t know to look...
...among investors that Brabeck's debt-financed acquisition strategy risks overextending the company. Nestle's net debt has quadrupled since Brabeck took over in 1997, to $13.8 billion in 2001, the latest year for which figures are available. The company has nonetheless managed to hang on to its top-shelf, triple-A rating, and Brabeck still gets some respect from Wall Street. "He's done well so far in keeping the top line bubbling and extracting better margins," Wood says. Wood and other analysts--including those at Goldman Sachs, which recently added Nestle to its list of recommended stocks--believe...
...also need to pull out all the stops to find new oil supplies. Actions like drilling in the controversial Arctic National Wildlife Reserve and exploring for more oil and natural gas on the outer continental shelf of North America suddenly take on a sense of urgency. They would not cure the problem but could buy time to offset shrinking supply...