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That was why, when the CEOs of the Detroit Three auto companies showed up on Capitol Hill in mid-November to beg for $25 billion in emergency loans, the committees they went to were Senate Banking and House Financial Services--which have jurisdiction over the financial-bailout...
...When they return to testify after Thanksgiving, it is hoped that the three CEOs will have learned from their disastrous experience. At a contentious panel Wednesday in the House Banking Committee, all three, after being repeatedly reproached for flying separate corporate jets to Washington to beg for money, refused to pledge that they would fly home on commercial planes or sell the company jets. Two of the three - GM's Richard Wagoner and Ford's Alan Mulally, who last year made a combined $37.4 million - also refused to give up their annual salaries. All the while, the trio, rounded...
...with the broken string. The glitch did not prevent Start, Go! from securing the prize.The same thing happened to Elephantom. Pianist, songwriter and secondary vocalist Matthew A. Aucoin ’12 said when the group’s guitarist’s string broke, they had to beg the audience for a replacement guitar. Finally, the kindness of strangers came through.“Some random person handed us a guitar,” Aucoin said.Drawing on a wide variety of instrumentation, including trumpet, piano, guitar, and bass, the band has been playing around Boston since 2006. Half...
...then our younger generations will take the place of the burnt out 60s hippies in truly protesting what’s going on. And maybe then we can give them a counterculture that would rival that of the Vietnam days—when music, literature, and visual art could beg for Love while underscoring the horrors of needless bloodshed. I like John Mayer, but he’s no Hendrix, and, well, most hipsters are too busy in-fighting about their favorite indie band to join together under one particular anti-war creed.Meanwhile, back on the home front, we could...
...track “Reasons Why,” Smith opens with a typically morose line—“I won’t try to bring you down about my suicide”—and continues, “I won’t beg to put you out about my right to die.” But all this feigned moodiness contrasts with the rather tame and generic rock ambience of the music itself. Throughout, you can’t help but wonder if Smith is singing about a real heartache or just crooning...