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...early '90s in beautiful and scenic Boise, Idaho. Somewhere between potato farms and militia members, Boise managed to churn out Doug Martsch, leader and resident guitar god of Built to Spill. First came Ultimate Alternative Wavers, a perplexing title for a perplexing album. A dense and jagged slice of paranoid pop, the album only hinted at the musical mazes that were yet to pour out of Martsch's head...
Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor DataAccording to the New York Times, AT&T is close to inking a partnership with the House of Gates in which Microsoft, for $5 billion, would get a 2 to 3 percent slice of AT&T. More important, Microsoft would get the only thing it likes better than cash: market share, via a commitment from AT&T to use Windows software in every set-top Internet/phone/cable box that AT&T will be running wires into. Is the new Ma Cable moving a little too fast? Not if the deal was Microsoft's price for staying...
Pepsi hopes to make its greatest gains in the U.S. this summer, when it unleashes a marketing blitz tied to the Star Wars prequel The Phantom Menace. Pepsi will spend around $2 billion exercising its exclusive boasting rights to America's favorite slice of fantasyland. There will be collectible Pepsi cans emblazoned with Star Wars characters and gold "Yoda" cans of Mountain Dew, not to mention surprises in bags of Frito snacks...
...transformation of a young girl into a desperate manipulator trying to sleep her way out of Tibet. This is not a trite teen angst movie from Hollywood, but an examination of walking the fine line of womanhood to survive. We do not feel pity, but rather, we experience a slice of the disillusionment felt by the youth of the Cultural Revolution (such as Joan Chen herself...
Other times you'll find yourself in seminars with only a handful of other students. These can be excellent, unless you haven't cracked the binding on your overpriced books from the Coop. Believe it or not, students can be notoriously unprepared for class, choosing one more slice at Tommy's House of Pizza rather than reading those last hundred pages of Bleak House...