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...Education spending, another type of government subsidy, will also get a delayed tune-up under the budget proposal. In addition to spending more on education, Obama’s budget proposes to make student loans available directly from the federal government—rather than government-sponsored private intermediaries. Considering the scandal that has riddled this $85-billion-a-year industry, it makes sense for an uninterested lender like the federal government to help out college students...
Intermission - A couple of youngsters are running down the ice, putting on Harvard hockey gear. The girl in the No. 2 jersey gets to the puck first and sends it into the net to the tune of the theme song from Super Mario Bros...
Don’t worry, your computer isn’t infected with some weird screen-warping virus; that’s actually what it’s supposed to look like. In the latest video from his Auto-Tune drenched album “808s and Heartbreak,” Kanye plays the poor-little-rich-rapper card while simultaneously re-enacting his latest acid trip. The video opens with West in sunglasses and a color-block sweater—think Will Smith on “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”—against...
...little exciting instrumentally, the lighter song works to spark the sometimes apparent energy of the offbeat band, especially when the piano bridge enters the fray. This hint of inspiration is then corroborated with “Drugs,” which presents the dichotomy of an upbeat 50s pop tune with distorted guitar and crackling vocals. “Old Man” begins with a heavy reliance on a dreary guitar and keyboard dirge. The first half presents an anthemic quality that would have been fitting in such rock-parodies as Spinal Tap; yet halfway through the song...
...loneliest. You can hear an organ and a cello and a lot of other sounds that are hard to pinpoint, but they gradually converge into a heartbreaking melody as Bono stares into the reflection of an ATM and discovers he can no longer recognize his own face. As the tune fades out, he lets loose another of his famous "Oh-oh-ohs," and it's hard not to hear an echo of his closing blast on "With or Without You" but in a minor key. U2 has clearly found itself stuck in a very strange moment of self-reckoning...