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...song, Killing Joke's Eighties, which captured the decade better in a few minutes than the pilot does in half an hour. That '80s Show buys into the pop-historical arc, familiar from movies like Boogie Nights and Blow, in which the relatively innocuous, goofy '70s (pot, disco, TM) sour into the cold, aggressive '80s (coke, heavy metal, M.B.A.s). It's hard to cultivate warmth for a decade that you're portraying as soulless and lame, especially if your characters are equally empty. There's easy nostalgia (remember Dynasty? remember "Where's the beef"?), and there's getting a decade...
...series against the Ivies’ top two teams resulted in a split, any Harvard fan at the sold-out Lavietes Pavilion Saturday evening would tell you that Harvard looked like the best team in the league. Hot shooting, key defensive stops and poise under pressure all erased the sour memories left from last season’s home weekend, when Princeton’s Kyle Wente hit a miracle three-point shot in the final second to deny the Crimson a sweep...
...innovation and profit? That's up to Immelt, 45, handpicked successor to the most influential CEO ever, Jack Welch. Immelt made his name boosting the fortunes of GE's Medical Systems business, and barely three months into his new job, he is already casting a large shadow. Despite the sour global economy, a debilitating advertising slump at NBC and a serious downturn in his jet-engine business, Immelt paid $2 billion in October for Spanish-language TV network Telemundo...
...public school system espouses only a diluted version of secular humanism and a weak idea of tolerance. It has become a moral vacuum. Inspiring teachers are prohibited from discussing their moral or religious convictions with their students, and some students absorb this sour nihilism in dangerous ways. Recently, four teenagers in the Boston area were arrested for plotting a sick, heartless killing spree in their high school. Mass murders, gang activity and violence in public schools are now all too common. When will we learn that students in schools without positive moral aspirations will sink into festering amorality, alienation...
...Dynegy got into the Enron deal for three reasons. The first - that Enron stock was dirt cheap - went sour when Enron's stock continued to slide even faster than Dynegy's, but the renegotiations looked likely to rectify that. The other two were about structure - Dynegy wanted to take over as the energy-trading honcho by folding its own trading operation into Enron's powerhouse, and it wanted to beef up its real energy-production assets by acquiring Enron subsidiary Northern Natural Gas, a pipeline network that runs from the upper Midwest down to Texas...