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...While many industry observers speculated that Radiohead might go off-label for its seventh album, it was presumed the band would at least rely on Apple's iTunes or United Kingdom-based online music store 7digital for distribution. Few suspected the band members had the ambition (or the server capacity) to put an album out on their own. The final decision was apparently made just a few weeks ago, and, when informed of the news on Sunday, several record executives admitted that, despite the rumors, they were stunned. "This feels like yet another death knell," emailed an A&R executive...
...leading experts on international economics presented visions of China’s past and future to a packed Fong Auditorium on Friday night, projecting what may lie in store for one of the world’s largest and fastest growing economies. Maier Professor of Political Economy Benjamin M. Friedman ’66 began the event, titled “The Chinese Economy: Trade and Investment,” by focusing on the social and political implications of China’s standard-of-living increases over the past 25 years. “It is very clear that...
...Democratic presidential candidates, but there was a clear loser--Barack Obama." At a rural-issues forum on a farm outside Adel, Iowa, Obama sympathized with the plight of farmers this way: "Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and seen what they charge for arugula?" (That high-end grocery store chain doesn't have any locations in Iowa...
...first job was in one such diversified bookstore that sold local music and hummus-laden bagels alongside Rushdie and Stephen King. Opened by two aging hippies, the bookstore was a patchouli-scented downtown institution with walls buried under rainbow flags and Che Guevara posters. The store has survived thanks to its role as a watering hole for the local hippie community. Unfortunately for me, this meant that, despite the fact that I was better-read than the majority of the staff, I had to be hidden in the back storeroom, where my sound hygiene wouldn’t disturb...
...Ellison. My pal claimed that Malamud’s novel was too boring and depressing. This summer, as I languished away in the Cambridge sun, something—a longing for the familiar, perhaps—told me to revisit Malamud and his tale of an old Jewish grocery store owner whose newfound, gentile assistant tries to help the Bober family while fighting his own, prominent internal demons. I instantly recalled why I enjoyed the novel so much the first time. On its surface, sure, it’s boring and depressing: Poverty, shattered dreams and the mundane happenings inside...