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This rule raises a remarkable and baffling array of questions and problems. How does one exactly enforce the limit? Do wandering proctors and administrators periodically stop by dorms, notebook in hand, poking around for cans and bottles? Perhaps a team of forensic experts who can determine whether the slew empty cans on the floor are evidence of recent infractions or a casual approach to cleaning...
...surprising move in today's financial climate, says TIME financial writer Bernard Baumohl. "The retail side of things has always been the least profitable aspect of banking, because you have to lease property and pay tellers." Traditional banks have also been losing individual customers to an ever-widening array of brokerage houses and online banks. By adopting an institutional angle, Deutsche Bank AG will be able to overlook those market risks - but where will their individual customers go to do their everyday banking? If Germany follows U.S. banking trends, says Baumohl, there will be a bunch of community banks jumping...
...Broadway showmen. In an odd coincidence, The Wild Party is the source and identical title for two musicals opening on the New York City stage only weeks apart. Both follow March's story of Queenie and her abusive boyfriend Burrs, who throw a party that attracts an array of Roaring Twenties types and ends in violence. In the depleted world of Broadway musicals--where only three new shows with an original book and score opened last season--the idea of two based on the very same 70-year-old work is pretty wild in itself...
...synthesizer is a gambler's instrument. It lures musicians with its gaudy array of textures and noises, but it can also deaden their performances. Sometimes, only sometimes, the gamble pays off. William Orbit's Pieces in a Modern Style, a collection of synthesizer arrangements of pieces by classical greats ranging from Vivaldi to Satie, is a case in point. When Orbit, Madonna's producer, sticks close to the composers' arrangements and instrumentation, as he does on Barber's "Adagio for Strings," the songs don't profit from the synthesizer's virtues and still suffer its vices. "Adagio" sounds like...
Additionally, she said, consortiums allow schools to offer a broader array of educational options than they could alone...