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Jack Barnett is a conductor; he is not a performer. The second album from These New Puritans (TNP), “Hidden,” is an audacious break from the somewhat-restrained alternative rock of their debut, 2008’s “Beat Pyramid,” as Barnett, the group’s songwriter and vocalist, becomes the conductor of a full-blown operatic rock album. The term “operatic” conjures images of perfected, grandiose voices, melodramatic gestures and conventional melodies. But “Hidden?...

Author: By Sarah L. Hopkinson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: These New Puritans | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

Lesson No. 1: tell people what you want them to do in a way that will make intuitive sense to them. The U.S. government's Food Guide Pyramid says adults should eat 5 to 7 tsp. of oil a day. Know how many teaspoonfuls of oil you ate yesterday or why you should care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Your Way | 2/15/2010 | See Source »

...there's another way change could come to the top of France's economic pyramid: the foreigners who hold 40% of the CAC 40 companies' capital could increase that amount and then demand the kinds of shareholders' rights and powers they enjoy in the U.S. and Britain - and stage a mini-coup of the France Inc. boardrooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France's Boardrooms: Little Diversity at the Top | 1/22/2010 | See Source »

Since he arrived on Christmas Eve, President Obama has kept a low profile. He played golf on a military course, and watched the waves at a popular bodysurfing beach called Pyramid Rock. The President's children were treated to shave-ice treats on Saturday at Island Snow - the same store the President visited with his daughters last Christmas. (See the Obamas' 2008 Hawaii vacation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Obamas' Vacation: Not So Low-Key After All | 12/29/2009 | See Source »

Host countries often construct an itinerary for the torch relay that showcases
 points of national pride. On its way to Mexico City in 1968,
 the torch retraced Christopher Columbus' path to the New World; one of its
 pit stops was at the Great Pyramid of the Moon in Teotihuacan, where it was 
incorporated into an Aztec fire ceremony. For the 1988 Olympics in
 Seoul, torchbearers donned traditional Korean clothing to celebrate the
 nation's heritage. Twelve years later, on the way to Sydney, an Aboriginal field
-hockey star kicked off the domestic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Olympic-Torch Relay | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

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