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Philip Turner reviewed:
| | 0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:  Long Live the "Live" Performance!, February 26, 2001 Initially I purchased this recording to acquire some of the tracks (Rhianon and Landslide) from the Fleetwood Mac follow-up to "Rumours," entitled; "Fleetwood Mac." I was very surprised to find this a "live" recording of their Southern California concert, which uses the USC Marching Band on (2) tracks; "Tusk," and "Don't Stop." No where on the CD is there any reference to the fact this is a "Live" recording. This recording did however, re-energize my enthusiasm for Fleetwood Mac and gave me a greater awareness of the genius that is combined from so many disparate members of the band. Irregardless of your opinion of Stevie Nicks, she really is a great singer-songwriter. Her interplay and collaborative efforts with Lindsay Buckingham, a virtuoso guitarist and singer-songwriter in his own right, really showcase her talents. "Rhianon," "Landslide" and "Dreams" shine like never before. And even as Stevie Nicks admits, "Silver Springs really is a great old song." I also came to realize how much the success of this band is related to the talent and performance of Christine McVie. Her compositions; "You Make Loving Fun," and "Don't Stop," (even though ex-president Clinton and his wife ruined the song "Don't Stop" by using it as a campaign slogan) are classics for the group. This recording invigorates the listener even one who's hearing it for the first time. I also felt a great sense of nostalgia from this music as I realized that the current band is no longer together due to Christine McVie's recent departure. I think the greatest reason this music stands the test of time is, that all of the songwriter's composed their music out of their current life experiences, classic struggles, things that involved them and those they loved, and many of those entanglements involved other members of the band. I would think it would be very difficult to suppress your feelings and emotions or not be affected by some aspect of marital discord, and yet continue to perform as a group? It's unfortunate such volatility seems to accompany great genius. I'm very glad I made this purchase. I'd rate it 4.5 stars!
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Cepco Tool BW-2 BoWrench Decking Tool
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Sally A. Zaher reviewed:
| | 2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:  The best thing to happen to decking!, February 24, 2001 In a time when lumber is anything but straight this tool is invaluble when working alone doing decking, or to make it go evan faster have someone work the tool and someone screw or nail the boards. A must for anyone doing at least a couple of decks a year.
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First, Break All the Rules
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Osher Doctorow, Ph.D. reviewed:
| | 2 of 4 people found the following review helpful: Buckingham's First Break All the Rules, February 24, 2001 The other reviewers have excellently analyzed this book, and I'd like to concentrate here on where the idea of breaking the rules fits into history. In my fields of mathematics and physics teaching and research, history shows that the most creative geniuses broke the rules but also had the most knowledge of the rules. This combination of knowledge and change characterized creative geniuses across the board, from Socrates to Leonardo Da Vinci and Michaelangelo and Cervantes and Pierre De Fermat, Beethoven and Mozart and Haydn and Schubert and Chopin, to Paul Dirac and Steven Weinberg and Stephen Hawking and Sir Roger Penrose in physics and beyond. It might be an exaggeration to say that they broke all the rules, but they broke some that nobody had thought of breaking before, and they were prepared to break any that were necessary. They were both rebels and guardians of civilization, a strange combination called the best of human life. That's where breaking all the rules in management comes from, in my opinion.
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Crooked River Burning
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Bruce Stern reviewed:
| | 7 of 9 people found the following review helpful: No More Cleveland Jokes, Please!, February 14, 2001 Written with compassion for his characters, humor for the foibles we all have, and respect for caring people, Mark Weingardner has written an original, involving and heartfelt historical fiction about the peak of mid-20th century Cleveland to its river-burning decline circa 1970. With heart-capturing chapters about Dorothy Fuldheim, (read the book to learn about this eccentric cultural character and her important firsts), the Cleveland Indians glory days, and the sad repercussions of Willie Mays's (in)famous catch in the '54 World Series, Carl Stokes, the first African-American mayor of a major American city, and other tales of a city long ridiculed, but also a source of pride for its residents, including the leading fictional characters who find love amongst the steel mills, polluted river and ethnic neighborhoods. Who learn that life is something one learns to live while living it. A happy, bittersweet and memorable read. The story will stay with me for quite sometime.
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