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...difficult to say how well the music of these and other emerging British bands will survive the harsh commercialism of the American market. They will face stiff competition from The Strokes, a group of New York City natives whose debut album Is This It is lighting up the charts in the U.S., following a massive publicity buildup by The Strokes in Britain. Better established British rock bands like Radiohead and Blur are also eating up what little consumer market exists for independent music in America. Many budding talents have been nipped in the past by the most expensive and exclusive...
...pace of his progress has carried a stiff price—a trail of professors extending far past the Department of Afro-American Studies is uneasy with a style they characterize as inattentive and stubborn rather than merely assertive and direct. While a faculty with more than 400 tenured members has a broad spectrum of opinions, professors say grumblings about the President’s style are emanating from many corners of the Faculty...
...measure has encountered stiff opposition from some professors...
...drama now revolves around what Koizumi's government can do. On a tough-love trip to Tokyo last month, U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill warned that if Japan didn't do some stiff brooming fast it could face "economic upheaval." In the Japanese context the meaning was clear: a loss of confidence, bank runs, financial collapse. Tokyo's greatest hope is a stiff restructuring of banks - one that keeps them afloat while at the same time forces them to drop deadbeat creditors - that doesn't freak out savers...
...alias of avant-popster Keigo Oyamada) seems to have at his disposal and his undeniable talent as a sampler make Point, a potentially formulaic album, such a triumph. Cornelius is so good at regulating the give-and-take of his layered compositions that, rather than coming off as stiff and mechanical, they sound alive, constantly in motion. From a simple repeated-riff and sampled voice motif, “Point of View Point” blossoms effortlessly into a sparkling summertime anthem. “Another View Point” is a hypnotic, escalating pattern of electric guitar squeals...