Word: versions
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...When Greenberg presented the idea, group leader Isiah Taylor, 50, rejected it. He thought the song was too Caribbean for the American charts. He was probably right. The original version was a soca (soulful calypso), a horn-heavy, uptempo form that is played at Caribbean carnivals across the U.S. every summer but has never really caught on. When Baha Men finally recorded "Dogs," they explored beats more familiar to American audiences - throwing in some junkanoo (Bahamian festival music) percussion to give it their signature flair. The result is the catchy rendition you've heard so often: urban, with an echo...
...program, hot off the Internet, is called the Truster. Made by an Israeli company, it is, in essence, an updated version of one of those lie-detector testers you see on cop shows, but scaled down for home use (such as flushing out that pesky lying spouse or fibbing teenager...
...NASDAQ, meanwhile, was a practically a rock in these troubled times. On staggering volume of 2 million shares (this by 2:30), the tech index took a smaller version of the Dow's early dive but steadily regained ground throughout the day and by late afternoon was into the black. Credit Intel, Sun Microsystems (which flubbed and spit out a good earnings report a few hours early) and Microsoft for leading the charge...
...What's going on? Maybe just a single-day version of last Friday; investors seem unwilling to dash the indexes on the rocks completely, but equally unwilling to declare the end of six months of neuroses just yet. Earnings season marches on after the bell, with big-footprint techies AOL, Apple and Microsoft all reporting for the after-hours crowd. Their reaction will show up in the morning...
...readers, many of us carry a secret longing for unauthorized histories, works that are therefore free to deliver the real story. The Beatles Anthology is an official version, and although we're occasionally surprised by the Beatles' candor, much of the time we're left thinking that there must be better stories about the group and more eloquent ways of telling them...