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...BEEN SAID that West's rhymes against higher education make him a dangerous role model, in which case--good. Dangerous role models are the only ones, musically speaking, worth a damn. As the survivor of a life-threatening car wreck (he recorded his vocals for the song Through the Wire with his jaw wired shut), West isn't really anticollege so much as drunk on live-life-now narcissism. He uses most of Dropout, winner of the Best Rap Album prize, to congratulate himself for doing the work it took to become a star and berating the chumps...
...membership talks may be suspended. Last week, plans to hold a summit on the issue had to be abandoned because of an unwillingness to compromise by all sides. The E.U.'s Commissioner for Enlargement, Olli Rehn, has called the prospect of breaking off membership talks with Turkey a "train wreck" whose consequences are "so negative I don't care to think of them." He'd better start thinking, because opinions are hardening on the island. Since entering the E.U., attitudes among Greek Cypriot politicians to Turkish Cypriots' claims to govern the north seem to have sharpened. Meanwhile, Turkish Cypriot demands...
Moving money from sector to sector to capture performance is like frequently changing lanes on a crowded highway: you rarely get where you're going faster, and you risk a wreck. Recognize that strong recent performance often signals an investment opportunity that has passed. It's best to heed Alexander Pope's admonishment: "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread...
...fray. The action starts at a believable pitch and rapidly spirals into exaggeration and caricature. For the most part, this works, as it is delivered with an acid wit and cynicism that meshes nicely with the characters’ disintegration, giving the play something of a train-wreck appeal of watching them dig themselves deeper and deeper into an emotional pit. All of the actors (save Steinemann, who maintains a glacial calm throughout) go off the deep end with aplomb. Especially good are Lloyd-Bollard, as the perpetually-angry newscaster Sian, and Renaud, as the flighty and emotionally fragile artist...
...Walter Bobbie, lacks any semblance of vocal or acting talent; and the original score by Tom Kitt channels Meatloaf more than Marvin Gaye. Calling “High Fidelity” a disaster would be giving too generous an appellation to the two-and-a-half-hour train wreck that opened in Boston...