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...Age-old business practices dictate that successful institutions increase their employees' salaries every few years. In large measure, these hikes are designed to keep compensation at pace with inflation, though they also serve to build confidence and moral among an organization's employees...
Starrs, a professor of forensic sciences at George Washington University, is one of a growing -- and controversial -- group of graveyard detectives. Listening with the ears of high-tech equipment, they try to hear the tales that dead men tell -- stories that could settle age-old mysteries and even solve crimes. In a rush to rewrite history, these bone buffs are going after the skeletons of everyone from Presidents and Czars to assassins and the victims of cannibals...
Oddly enough, at some points Gates offers his own "traditional" justification for all this--from the writings of Cardinal Newman to the "age-old ideal" of mathesis universalis to simple "common sense" (which is used by the right to defend the Anglo-American canon "common sense," for example, might say that Shakespeare is "better" than Zora Neale Hurston).But in this case, Gates says, "[c]ommon sense says that you don't bracket 90 percent of the world's cultural heritage if you really want to learn about the world." Good point...
Inside, as the Red Sox went down to defeat once again, the age-old cynicism that seems to have accompanied the Beantown team ever since the end of World War I was as strong as ever. The two guys sitting behind me in the bleachers, in a vain attempt to catch some exposure on ESPN, held up a sheet between innings that read "74 years of frustration. Win one before we die." This spring has all the making of a typical season of baseball in Boston...
...second side of the album features a number of different sounds. Three songs are light pop tunes. "Someday" expresses general longing while "Satisfy You," which asks the age-old question, "Did I satisfy you?/ Did I satisfy-hi-hi-hi-hi you?" "Don't Fuck Me Up (with Peace and Love)" won't get much airplay for obvious reasons, but it, too, is fresh and exciting...