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...killers, there would be public executions. William Duffy Sloatsburg, New York, U.S. I hope the secret talks pay off. I am behind the Bush Administration's efforts. I fear, however, that in about five years the Americans are going to regret that we did not begin in the early '90s to use our greatest force to oppose Islamist extremists. Cherry Bethea El Dorado Hills, California, U.S. Those Snap Decisions Columnist Joe Klein's "The Blink Presidency" [Feb. 28] persuasively captured George W. Bush's tendency to pursue both domestic and foreign policies on the basis of "instantaneous, subconscious decision making...
...times as if he just lost his dog, claimed he didn't become concerned about baseball's steroid problem until the hulking McGwire admitted he took androstenedione in 1998 (andro was legal in baseball at the time). "No manager, no general manager, nobody ever came to me in the '90s," said Selig. At best, it showed big-league naiveté, since those drugs were clearly baseball's dirty little secret in the 1990s. Said Massachusetts Representative Steven Lynch, a Democrat: "I have not been reassured...
...master's degree from Stanford and a Harvard M.B.A. didn't help return Huang to the Marxist fold. Nor did an exercise in entrepreneurship when he co-founded General Wireless (now known as MTone), one of the first mainland-owned companies to receive venture-capital funding in the mid-'90s. Now Huang is sowing the seeds of capitalism as China managing director of Softbank Asia Infrastructure Fund, a $400 million venture fund. "There's a tendency for foreigners to look at [Chinese] companies run by English-speaking CEOs because they feel they can trust them and talk directly to them...
Blur recognizes that the stylistic flow of ’90s rock is one that celebrates and explores the ironies of musical history—not surprising for a decade lit off by the perverse cheerleaders of “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” The guitar-rock that Oasis so convincingly emulates frequently clung to a set of themes about pastoral English life, reflected in such songs as the Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby” or “Penny Lane,” and the Kink’s magnum opus...
Revision and renormalization are legitimate parts of artistic production—the artistic discourse, if you like—and I don’t see how your meta-claim that Blur was both aware of and subverting the ironic ethos of ’90s grunge makes that band any more effective. Introspection doesn’t have to be overt; not everybody can (or should) be Thom Yorke, and just because “Song 2” is an ironic song about irony doesn’t mean that Blur is any more interested in analyzing...