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7-Up vs. Coke Part 2
Heir to a fortune, Andrew Gladney went from John Burroughs to Yale and came home to found the dot-com darling Savvis Inc. Then he squandered it all. The spectacular flameout of a St. Louis soft-drink scion.
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Red Alert: Everything they really don't want you to know about those pesky traffic-light cameras
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Ludo is fired up and ready to play on the national stage
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Curious Gorge: Ian tests the animal magnetism of Three Monkeys
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Seeing Red: Partners battle over a Wash. Ave. eatery's ownership
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Red Alert: Everything they really don't want you to know about those pesky traffic-light cameras (10)
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Seeing Red: Partners battle over a Wash. Ave. eatery's ownership (9)
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7-Up vs. Coke Part 2 (6)
Heir to a fortune, Andrew Gladney went from John Burroughs to Yale and came home to found the dot-com darling Savvis Inc. Then he squandered it all. The spectacular flameout of a St. Louis soft-drink scion.
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Will Ian flip for the Original Pancake House? (4)
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Is a Wash. U. dean destroying alumni records and making unjust department cuts? (3)
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Have two Nirvana producers helped create the next Metallica?
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"The Sex Song": Not TASTiSKANK's homage to Matthew McConaughey
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Bret Michaels (sort of) talks dirty to RFT
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The 75s make an extra-fancy splash with its debut record
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Producer nonpareil Pharrell Williams is happy to be just one of the band again
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Boeing vs. Airbus: The Winning Bird Might Be Too Big
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Does It Offend You, Yeah? at the Fader Fort
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Is Red Kaput?
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This Is Hawkwind -- Do Not Panic
06:08PM 11/09/07
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Mercury Rev once set the world afire with its chaotically cosmic psychedelia; now it grandiosely lulls it to sleep. Growing ever more sane, content and financially stable since its 1998 commercial breakthrough, Deserter's Songs, Mercury Rev has continued to reiterate the widescreen sentimentality of that album with 2001's All Is Dream and now The Secret Migration. This is Mercury Rev's most cheerful, conservative album, and therefore its most depressing to fans of mind-scorching early classics like Yerself Is Steam and Boces. Most of Migration's thirteen tracks are elegantly conceived and lushly orchestrated, but thoroughly bland. The plodding yet bombastic rock of "Secret for a Song" sets the template, conjuring mild euphoria tempered with an undertow of melancholy -- like almost every song Mercury Rev's recorded since '98. This upstate New York band's decline is all the more sad for how stratospherically it once soared. Its flame has become an ember.
