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...Despite its ballooning trade deficit with China and the loss of American manufacturing jobs, the U.S. remains a champion of open markets, Paulson said in a speech last Wednesday, noting: "Protectionist policies do not work and the collateral damage from these policies is high. We will not heed the siren songs of protectionism and isolationism...
Kitchen real estate is always at a premium, but for many home cooks, it's impossible to resist the siren call of shiny new cooking gadgets that promise to make your culinary experience faster, easier--and, equally important, more stylish. We tested the newest arrivals and found a few that are worth making room...
...doubt four years of Harvard education aggravated an already sensitive condition. The siren songs of Commencement speeches alone were enough to confer on even the most immune graduate a particularly virulent strain of the Syndrome. After all, we had just been told in English and in Latin that we were incredibly wonderful and talented. It was only normal to expect the world to roll out the Red Carpet for us. Hear ye, hear ye: hundreds of smart, talented, ambitious people are graduating from Harvard. World, make...
...might be sung. He began by aping Guthrie's tinny tenor, but pushing it farther, into a siren wail, into banshee territory. Mitch Jayne of the Dillards famously compared the early Dylan sound to "a dog with his leg caught in barbed wire." It certainly was a prickly handful to kids raised on either the smooth Sinatra sound or the orgasmic church screaming of Little Richard. But to Dylan, barbed-wire vocals were an aesthetic and, as the French would say, a politique. Mellow was a lie; raspy was authentic. As he wrote in an early poem: "The only beauty...
...drive from my high school in Brattleboro, Vt. (This, of course, is assuming the bus drivers are willing to risk their lives to come at all.) Furthermore, the NRC’s own investigation of Vermont Yankee found that the alert system was inadequate in areas outside of normal siren coverage. Hurricane Katrina showcased the deadliness of a botched evacuation, yet the NRC does not appear to have learned from the mistakes in New Orleans...