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...BRMC’s Brit-rock guitar and vocals sitting on top. Overall, Jago’s drumming is standard 4/4 rock fare, but he manages to keep it interesting here and there. “Not What You Wanted” also diverges slightly from the heavy rock trend with an Oasis-like barrage of E chords complemented by gleefully distorted solos. The rest of “Baby 81” tends to run together, and though the band mixes things up slightly with dramatic synth organs (“All You Do Is Talk”), more...
...This trend has persisted, and in the past, Harvard has been no exception. It is not the Harvard Republicans outside the Science Center rallying for workers’ rights or better wages for our dining hall staff. Those are the motions of liberal agenda-makers, such as the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM...
...Apart from his fiery rhetoric, what makes Chavez's move seem more jarring is the fact that, until he came to power in 1999, Venezuela had been a trend-bucking oasis for Big Oil. Venezuela did nationalize its oil industry in 1976, but in the 1990s it had steadily reopened its fields to foreign investment - in some cases handing the multinationals deals that even conservative Venezuelans considered too sweet. Chavez has just as steadily, and stridently, reversed that policy, paring down the multinationals' ownership while ratcheting up their taxes and royalties. And because Venezuela is America's fourth-largest foreign...
...That, perhaps, is the real cause for concern - how deeply the nationalization trend affects the quantity of oil that not only Venezuela but other countries can export, and hence the price we pay for it. The lack of new investment in Mexico's oil fields, for example, has led to some of that nation's steepest production drops ever. The drilling ventures Chavez expropriated today involve tar-like heavy crude in Venezuela's Orinoco belt - perhaps enough to add some 300 billion barrels to the country's reserves, which would move it ahead of Saudi Arabia. But to make that...
...producer, of course, wants his or her musical pigeonholed as a young-girl show; niche audiences don't make hits. Yet the influx of young theatergoers to shows like Wicked is a trend producers can't afford to ignore. "We've talked about how we lost a generation who didn't think it was cool to go to the theater," says Wicked's Stone. "A lot of us have started to get that audience back. Younger people are coming back to the theater--and yet older people aren't leaving...