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...reinforcing what the smart money already thinks about the big money center banks. Their CEOs are talking about profits and paying back TARP money the same way that they were calling an end to banking write-offs a year ago. Former Lehman CEO Fuld said last April that the worst of the writedowns was probably over and Morgan Stanley (MS) chief John Mack said that the financial crisis was in the "eighth inning or top of the ninth." (See pictures of baseball...
...Elephants”: “The morning belonged to the grapefruit / Ripe in the gold Roman sun.” This kind of pretension is more grating even than that of “South China Moon” and, once again, represents the genre at its worst. An isolated instance of clever wordplay does not an Elvis Costello make. That is not to say that “Grr…” is uniformly without merit. There are moments, few as they are in this album, where Bishop Allen does move beyond the formula. The band...
...creativity. “Most people want to consider themselves creative,” Croft says. “Your idea of what creativity is is very bound up with your idea of who you are as a person and what you do. In a way artists are the worst people to discuss creativity with because it’s so personal for them. We try to include both artists and people who do not consider themselves artists in the discussion.”The Creativity Discussion Group also incorporates monthly colloquia into its schedule, which makes the interdisciplinary application...
...word, the Clinton Era.The dust jacket of “NoVA” (shorthand for Northern Virginia) reads like a recap of an episode of Desperate Housewives, promising to finally “scratch the shiny surface [of suburbia].” This topic may seem trite at worst and overworked at best, but Boice determinedly takes a stab at originality in examining the suicide of a seemingly-normal 17-year-old boy, and the context around that event, in excruciating detail.Within the first five pages, Boice has already delivered something more gruesome than banal. Grayson Donald has hanged himself...
...economy continues to struggle through its worst crisis in decades, Harvard researchers dependent on private funds are feeling the pinch...