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...swaying, drunken, multiracial carousals of mutual infatuation between audience and musicians. Lead singer Jan Curious has a litheness and thinness of girth that would make a Rolling Stone proud. The English-language songs are delirious paeans to fast cars ("Tell Her"), fast girls ("Caroline") and fast times ("Something Special"). And how is it possible to not be won over by a group that declares its chief influence to be "every song we've ever heard"? (See Asia's best bands...
...What?" by Joe Klein [Feb. 1]: President Obama spent a year working within the system to bring change. Wrong choice. Special interests gutted the reform out of the health care, banking and climate-and-energy bills, showing that congressional Democrats are as susceptible to the influence of money as Republicans. The President now understands. After the Massachusetts election, he went over the heads of the system to ask for help in getting action on banking reform. Now it's us vs. Wall Street in a fight to win over our Representatives...
NEIL BAROFSKY, special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, arguing in a report to Congress that the issues that led to the 2008 financial crisis remain unaddressed...
...eating breakfast in Currier might soon be struck by something else besides the green "pistachio" muffins—namely, a group of intrepid Quadlings wearing bathrobes down to the dining hall in the a.m. We hear that this same group of Currierites is currently in the process of having special Currier bathrobes made: here’s a promotional video from the organizers with singing, dancing, and a PBS-like series of commentaries on the import and meaning of the “bathrobe...
...stagnant yields, have called for a second Green Revolution. But for this, India will probably need the help of biotechnology, a discipline in which India has the potential to be a world leader. Because India allows protests and debate, though, pro-industry rulings are often overturned. (See a special report on the science of appetite...