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...this album: SLD has identified their sound and hardly stray from it. There is a certain majesty, a more primal musical essence in some of their more carefully-written choruses (“You’ve Done Enough,” for example) that transcends the painfully typical downbeat power-chording of so many tracks. Stars Look Down is never lackluster in its sound, and the straightforward production does little to enhance or detract from the sound quality. But what it comes down to is that there is no inherent creative drive at work here, or at least that...
Indeed, this week I initially intended to ignore the holiday and continue in a similarly downbeat vein, launching a scathing attack on the powers-that-be for giving undergraduates such a crazy schedule that we are perhaps the only college students in the country still in class the day before Thanksgiving. (Well, in theory, anyway. Most of us, of course, will be long gone before this article ever goes to press, let alone gets read.) However, as I began to type out that screed I mistyped “appalling” and my computer automatically corrected the word...
...those who believe things are looking much better have good company. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan last week said the economy was "prone more to long-term growth and not stagnation." For him, that's downright exuberant. And the downbeat Roundtable survey held a hidden gem: more than half of big-company executives said their top worry was the resiliency of the consumer--who is demonstrably regaining confidence amid the rapid success and few American casualties of the war in Iraq...
...once reserved for Osama bin Laden, but offered little more than assurances that "we're the greatest nation on the face of the earth." The markets--which matter more than ever in politics now that nearly half of all U.S. households hold investments--were paying more attention to the downbeat noises coming out of the Federal Reserve...
...once reserved for Osama bin Laden, but offered little more than assurances that "we're the greatest nation on the face of the earth." The markets-which matter more than ever in politics now that nearly half of all U.S. households hold investments-were paying more attention to the downbeat noises coming out of the Federal Reserve...