Word: tunes
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...politics--and why even his critics give him credit for being steel-stiff under pressure. He is, for instance, an expert in the art of intimidation--an essential tool when dealing with Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. When Holbrooke arrived in Belgrade on Oct. 5, as NATO planners began to tune up a massive strike against the Serbian forces in Kosovo, Milosevic had the gall to challenge Holbrooke with a small joke. "Are you Americans crazy enough to bomb us over our security police?" he asked. "Yeah," Holbrooke quietly replied, "we are." The deal he won in Belgrade, which calls...
During "How Can I Sing Like A Girl?" Flansburgh let the front row play his guitar, prompting him to comment after he received it that they must go to Berklee [College of Music] since his guitar was now in better tune than before he passed it to them. Continuing with the college theme, Linnell then introduced the next song as a "song in the same key [as the last one] for all you Berklee students." A spirited version of the classic "Birdhouse In Your Soul" followed, to the delight of the crowd...
...Fallows spends three to four hours a day on Rowers World, a project that combines his two loves to the tune of $100,000 a year in revenue. He maintains the site on a private server, without using Harvard computer facilities...
Some people watch the musical Annie and see a moppet belting out show tunes. Brooklyn-born rapper JAY-Z, whose latest release debuted last week at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart, saw something altogether grittier. "I watched the movie and was mesmerized," he says, referring to the scene in which the orphans sing Hard Knock Life. "They're too strong to let life bring them down. That's the ghetto right there." Inspired, Jay-Z sampled the song on his new album's title track, Hard Knock Life. Needless to say, the tune's original author was somewhat...
Trouble is, well-intentioned parents do tend to think that more is better when it comes to their babies, and all too often they filter out the fine print--in this case warnings from experts that sensory overload can cause babies to become irritable or tune out. The trick is to strike a balance. Here are a few tips to help parents do just that...