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What's clear within the first moments of Chinese Democracy is that Rose still has his snarl. His voice always was a power tool with endless precision settings, and on "Better" he opens by speak-singing in a tender falsetto before the guitars kick in and he sandblasts away at the melody. What Rose has to say - "A twist of fate, the change of heart kills my infatuation" etc. - is a bland list of romantic gripes that fail to diminish the song's impact one bit because it's how Rose sings that matters. Repeating the word better...
...Along the way, the escalating fervor of the Twilight audience - a group that bought 17 million books - helped Hardwicke make the movie she wanted to make. "I used that as a tool to convince the studio to give me more money," the director says. "I said, 'Let's do it right for the fans.' " (See 90 years of vampires onscreen...
Politics and religion is an unholy duo indeed; the pairing, which seems to form naturally, ends up hurting both its constituent parts. Religion’s positive attributes are overshadowed by its particular use as a political tool, and it seems unfair and unhelpful to enforce religious values on a diverse population in a participatory democracy...
...School A vs. School B may not have varied much. But how School A's engineering students judged those programs may be radically different from how School A's business students do. That finding underscores why using one single number to gauge an entire school is an ineffective tool at best for predicting what an undergraduate experience will be like. "Even high-performing institutions as measured by average benchmark scores have work to do to improve the experience of all students," says Alex McCormick, NSSE's director and a professor of education at Indiana University. (See pictures of how teens...
...they see the results of their philanthropy. By researching different programs and working with a team of volunteers, youngsters can gain valuable perspective on how the rest of the world lives and how better to prioritize their own "give-save-spend ratio," says Willis. Helping others is a powerful tool for teaching children about sacrifice and detachment from material things, she says...