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...acoustic version of “Sugar Baby” (a lesser known but fabulous song from Love and Theft) and the bluesy “Summer Days” (also of Love and Theft) were excellent closing songs for a set that was largely toned by the blues/rock orchestration of Dylan’s band. While it is enjoyable to hear Dylan sing older pieces like “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again,” the extreme differentiation from the recorded versions can be jarring for some Dylanistas. The once-solo folk artist...
...talking about. The only reason the BCS was created was to make sure that the conference champions, if they finished number one or number two in the country, would be free to play each other, rather than being locked into traditional bowl alliances (i.e. SEC with the Sugar, Pac 10 and Big Ten with the Rose...
What would make a parent send a child to such an isolated place, where he or she has to earn the right to use ketchup, sugar or salt, where calls home are rationed and where the smallest infraction can result in a stiff punishment? The Carbens say they did it because they had tried nearly everything else. John, their eldest son and the third of their six children, was smoking pot, routinely ignoring curfews, lying about his whereabouts and erupting in anger whenever he was challenged. When his girlfriend gave birth to a baby boy, he dropped out of 11th...
...took John practically all summer to get with the program at Spring Creek. He would get 25 points for good behavior (well on his way to earning brown sugar for his oatmeal as a reward) and then mouth off and return to square one. It took him three months to earn his first phone call from home. But he eventually came around and completed the two seminars necessary to qualify for the visit from his family. Their first moments after the group hug were awkward but, haltingly at first, they began to talk. Mary and Randy told John about...
...commission's work is expected to be the starting point for reform discussions. A member of the commission, Robert Pozen, CEO of mutual-fund firm MFS Investment Management, says he believes future benefits must be cut to fix the system. He endorses personal savings accounts as "the sugar to get people to accept some slowdown in the growth of benefits." So far, advocates of reform have promised that people near or at retirement age will not be affected by personal savings accounts. Whether the program will be voluntary for others is open to debate...