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...certainly would advise companies to be careful about how they treat employees with strongly held political beliefs, but I think common sense will prevail," Phillips says. "There were similar concerns among employers about a flood of claims when a law was brought in to protect whistle-blowers in 1998. But the courts have been pretty astute at seeing through bogus claims. I suspect a similar situation with this...
...reasoning behind this plan is nothing new. Many states have similar breaks, and some, like Michigan’s, are actually higher. States want to stimulate the economy in their bigger cities while advertising to tourists and making their urban centers seem “cool.” But Boston is “cool” in no senses of the word; it’s cold most of the year, and it can be, at times, a fairly miserable place to live...
...voice, as if trying to emulate the style of the “Put Me Back Together” co-writers Tyson Ritter and Nick Wheeler of The All-American Rejects. “I Don’t Want to Let You Go” sounds uncannily similar to Hoobastank’s 2003 hit “The Reason,” relying on a simple piano melody and slowly heightening vocal theme to convince an unnamed woman not to leave the singer. On “Put me Back Together,” Cuomo sings...
...said he also hopes that contemplating the themes and conflicts in these novels will prepare his readers, especially college students, to deal with similar situations in the real world...
...York Dolls fan club—at least does justice to his passion for ’70s glam-rock. Elsewhere, album closer “Because of My Poor Education” continues this trend, though in a less gratifying way, beginning with a retro melody on piano similar to an overblown version of Lou Reed’s glam-rock ballad “Satellite of Love.” Turgid drums further ruin the song, often slowing down with decorative thumps better suited for melodrama...