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...Even at Harvard, where a $19 billion dollar endowment might be thought to shield the University from financial strain, the libraries have been hurt by mounting costs of science journals. In late February, Harvard canceled its licensing agreements with the electronic publisher of Nature Online, citing cost concerns...
...also intensely personal. DiFranco, who married her sound engineer, Andrew (Goat Boy) Gilchrist, three years ago, says that she has found living and working with the same person "24/7" difficult, and that Reckoning deals with that strain. "In the past, music has been a way that I've had to empower myself," says DiFranco. "Reckoning is about 'How do you show yourself at your weakest?'" On one song, the casually jazzy So What, DiFranco sings about a doomed relationship: "Who's gonna take the call/ when you find out that the road ahead/is painted on a wall?" On Marrow...
...Even at Harvard, where a $19 billion dollar endowment might be thought to shield the University from financial strain, the libraries have been hurt by mounting costs of science journals. In late February, Harvard canceled its licensing agreements with the electronic publisher of Nature Online, citing cost concerns...
...Joey, phrasing like a girl-group singer with nothing special in the way of chops. His everyman voice, weaker every year from the strain of constant touring, was all the more effective for being so ordinary. It was a voice that didn't call attention to itself. No strutting rock god here, no Robert Plant...
...apart. So Bill and Adair had little trouble persuading Jim to sell them the downstairs apartment he had previously rented out. "It immediately made things better for the kids," says Adair. She and Jim were able to coordinate strategies for dealing with Morgan and relieve each other when the strain grew excessive. "I would just say, 'I can't handle this. You have to go to your dad's.' So there was an immediate safe place for her to go. Jim and I were very supportive of each other...