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...Northeastern junior Benny D. Lombardo kept it simple: “Me against you rappin? / You sound like me when I’m crappin.” The crowd responded to every line, cheering the best remarks while booing the corny ones. One of Lombardo’s weaker lines, “If he went to jail he’d probably be a slut. / This one needs a haircut,” earned him a barrage of disapproving yells. “Can I get a glass of water? I’ve got a hot mouth...

Author: By Charleton A. Lamb, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Aspiring Rappers Face Off in Annual Event | 4/28/2008 | See Source »

...Francisco as they were in Paris. Yet the Chinese have singled out France as the ideal place to post their defiant message to the world. "You have to respect us because we are a big player now!" China seems to say. "We have become stronger as you became weaker; you need the oxygen of our huge markets and the support of our financial institutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Lose Face, Or Lose Contracts? | 4/23/2008 | See Source »

...lobbying the ECB to effectively behave more like the American Federal Reserve. After all, since the beginning of the write-down debacle in Wall Street, renowned Great Depression scholar and Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke ’75 has strongly favored loose economic policy (and a weaker dollar) to mitigate any economic downturn. Interest rate cuts have grabbed most headlines, but more money floating around will inevitably translate into higher inflation. It is only a matter of time...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: Stay the Course | 4/23/2008 | See Source »

Although China is the world's second largest exporter, the country is not as dependent on overseas trade as some. Exports accounted for 36.8% of China's GDP in 2006, compared with 43.2% in South Korea. But China may be unusually vulnerable to weaker international demand because the country has in recent years built too many new factories. With investment capital readily available and China's economy roaring ahead at double-digit growth rates, heavy industry expanded massively. The value of China's steel exports, for example, jumped tenfold from 2003 to 2007, from $5 billion to $50 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's At-Risk Factories | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...weariness without losing a piece of something important. And whether he knows it or not, the song feels strangely applicable to the album as a whole.Still, there are moments where one longs for the old Black Keys. The album’s structure tends to draw attention to weaker moments, like the aptly-titled “Same Old Thing,” instead of burying them in the helter-skelter guitar chaos of a more traditional Keys album. For all the bells and whistles Danger Mouse hangs on “So He Won’t Break...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Black Keys | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

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