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...heart comes at the very start: unlike nearly all of Sigur Rós’ more symphonic releases, the best song on “Go” is the first one. “Go Do” may back Jónsi’s familiar soaring falsetto with chiming percussion and orchestral flourishes, but it is nonetheless a consummate pop song—and a great one. From the opening, cheerfully syncopated vocal samples through the disconcertingly straightforward verse-chorus-verse structure, “Go Do” takes the listener on a compressed journey...
That is not to say that the directors of undergraduate studies in each department have no valuable contribution to add to the election process. PBK should welcome more information about the quality of each candidate, not less. After all, directors of each department are the people who are most familiar with their respective concentrations and, as such, can offer key information concerning the difficulty of each candidate’s course-load. Still, while this input is significant and deserves to play a role in PBK decisions, the value of student-sought faculty recommendations should not be understated in relation...
...Motorola retains, making its recent decision to manufacture phones branded with Google's name another questionable one. Already Motorola has had to pull Google from its phones being shipped to China after the search-engine company butted heads with the government in March. "That's O.K. for a less familiar brand like [Taiwan's] HTC," Gartner analyst Milanesi says. "But there is no value to Motorola in making phones for others. It needs to concentrate on re-establishing its own brand...
...individual familiar with Harvard squash who asked for anonymity said that "internal politics" played a larger role in the lack of renewal and expressed uncertainty regarding the alleged racial motive...
...9/14 - the day news broke of Lehman Brothers' 2008 collapse - as mileposts of Western decline. There is a sense of American haziness that is reinforced by the fact that our leaders have often shown only a rudimentary understanding of what we might call Real China - the harsh, smashmouth China familiar to anyone who works in its streets and corridors of power. This is the China that has grown for 30 years at an average rate of some 10% a year with no rule of law. It is a very different place from the polite, harmony-seeking Middle Kingdom many Westerners...