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Working in Widener Library is far scarier than dealing with a global economic crisis that has paralyzed markets from New York to Mumbai, at least for Ngozi N. Okonjo-Iweala ’77. The World Bank managing director once spent a summer working in Widener, a job she describes as “awful...
...After writing a senior thesis on Nigerian markets and microcredit, she earned a Ph.D. in regional economics and development from MIT. She spent several years working for the World Bank, taking a short leave of absence to work for the Nigerian government before returning to the Bank to serve as a vice president...
...original innovators would take, precisely because they represented the most marginalized of minorities in America. The greatest ambassador of this brand of disco, at least in my mind, is a now little known producer and composer named Arthur Russell. A pockmarked gay Iowa farmboy and classically trained cellist, Russell spent his youth between a Buddhist monastery, psychedelic San Francisco, and ultimately New York City, where he produced dance music with a singularity deserving of his improbable biography. This proto-disco he has come to stand for was marked by a graceful sense of levity, camp, and a fundamental belief...
...unforgettable first track. Two decades and four albums later, the band has hit its nadir. “Chinese Democracy,” their first album of original songs in 17 years, is thoroughly forgettable, neither worth the wait nor the $13 million-plus Axl Rose and company spent on its production. The whole thing is overproduced, every song a too-many-cooks-in-the-kitchen kind of affair. Much has been made about the decline of rock at the hands of Pro Tools, but a monkey could have mixed this album better with GarageBand. Throughout “Chinese...
Bush, Laura •Christmas ornament celebrating congressional resolution to impeach husband of is deemed inappropriate for display on White House tree by •cooking of is insulted to the face of by husband of •more time in Crawford, Texas, is not about to be spent...