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...even with the great conditions, the Crimson was unable to improve on its string of 10-place finishes...
...intuiting well, for the most part, when the listener will be tired and need respite from it all and inserting moments of calm piano parts or sounds reminiscent of the ocean. Towards the end of the album, high-energy track “Ascending” interrupts a comfortable string of low-key songs. While for some this may be a welcome intrusion (like the return of the upbeat guitar riff in “Iris Unveiled”), Trail of Dead crosses a certain threshold here that makes the album lose focus and difficult to get through. Nonetheless...
...hunting can be addictive regardless of the state of the Dow, and haggling is a low-risk, high-value contact sport. Trauma digs deep into habits, like my 85-year-old mother still calling her canned-goods cabinet "the bomb shelter." The children of the First Depression were saving string and preaching sacrifice long after the skies cleared. They came to be called the "greatest generation." As we learn to be decent stewards of our resources, who knows what might come of it? We have lived in an age of wanton waste, and there is value in practicing conservation that...
...Slowing foreclosure rates by cutting the monthly interest rates of homeowners who could not otherwise afford their mortgages may actually string out the amount of time it takes for housing prices to reach a nadir and swing up again. A homeowner with a $300,000 mortgage on a house which is worth only $200,000 will keep that house off the market if at all possible, to avoid having to come up with $100,000 to subsidize a sale. That house sits in limbo while the government makes the monthly mortgage payment low enough to keep it in the hands...
...YORK—After a recent string of poor first-halves, a good start was a point of emphasis for the Harvard men’s basketball team heading into Saturday’s game against Columbia...