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...known for her impressive vocal range, but on this album, she showily displays her talent without varying her style or expressing any real growth since “Citrus.” Her light and airy voice, somewhat reminiscent of Regina Spektor, never seems to descend from the highest octaves. On “In the Sky,” one of the album’s best examples of her limited vocal experimentation, she groups her phrases into short bursts, shooting up the octave over and over as if she was not yet content with how high her voice...
...time scrutiny on financial-sector compensation. President Barack Obama plans to limit cash pay to $500,000 for the top five executives of firms that take more aid from the government, and the stimulus legislation he signed into law on Feb. 17 sharply restricts bonuses for the 25 highest-paid employees of any company that has taken bailout money. While Wall Street is unhappy about these measures, its bosses agree (publicly, at least) that they must do a better job of linking pay to long-term profitability rather than short-term jackpots...
...money-losing firms seem to indicate an unwillingness to adapt to changed circumstances. Yet government attempts to dictate compensation at financial institutions are likely to bring about unintended and probably unpleasant consequences. The solution could lie instead in restricting certain financial behaviors or just hiking tax rates on the highest incomes. The bottom line is that Wall Street is uniquely risky--but that doesn't mean the risk takers have to be uniquely compensated to match...
...this year of about $1.5 trillion, including the bank bailout and the stimulus bill. They were prepared to swim even deeper into the red next year, expanding Obama's initiatives on renewable energy and high-speed rail lines and raising the deficit to 10% of gross domestic product, the highest figure since World War II. But assuming the economy has begun to turn around, the two-year spending splurge would be followed by a steady return to fiscal sanity: Obama wanted to bring the deficit down to 3% of GDP--still a whopping $546 billion...
...That's why Goody's imminent death from cervical cancer that has metastasized to her bowel, liver and groin is a matter of national importance, discussed at the highest levels and boosting the number of women in Britain seeking cervical screening 21%. "It's very sad and tragic that someone so young has got this deadly disease of cancer," Prime Minister Gordon Brown mused at his Downing Street press conference on Feb. 18. "I know the whole country will be worried and anxious." (See pictures of Gordon Brown...