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Also made more accessible on this evening was Fyodor Dostoevsky, who has never been known for uncomplicated literary works. Cary P. McClelland ’02 brought a new and surprisingly realistic voice to the narrator of Notes from Underground, performing a passage dealing with madness, conformity, violence and the causes of destructiveness. Achieving the golden mean between humorous and sober, McClelland used his brilliant instinct for timing, subtle facial expressions and the wit of Dostoevsky to bring his character to life in a very different context from that of the book...
Extremely prolific, Aesop Rock may prove instrumental in bringing underground hip-hop out of its creative...
...family business doesn’t involve tile or stucco—it involves running numbers and other unmentioned mafia-type things. For his entire life, he has been oblivious to the fact that his father (Peter Falk, “Columbo”) is the leader of an underground crime ring...
American Express Bank, which lost none of its 350 employees despite the destruction of its offices at 7 World Trade Center, relocated to three underground bunkers across the Hudson River in Weehawken, N.J. Plastic was peeled off standby PCs. Backup computer tapes were sent in by messenger. Plans were in place to reroute communications from international banking networks, but by the time the system was up, operators were hours behind. "You cater to the worst scenario, but this was worse than we had planned for," says Norman Gilchrist, head of global operations. Yet within 12 hours of the attacks...
...national economies of developing countries desperate for foreign exchange deposits, but every individual in the chain has the incentive of earning a commission. And that's what keeps the networks going. "People know that salaries cannot buy the good things," says Ali, one of thousands of operatives in an underground banking world that stretches from New York to Tokyo. "You need a little extra." Even at a cost of enabling crime and terrorism...