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...material never entirely dispels. While it doesn't evoke the almost creepy atmospherics of those examples, "Crossing Muddy Waters" may be the most clear-eyed articulation to date of Hiatt's sense of reckoning. True to the wordplay of the title, the album is a bluesy, almost all-acoustic affair - like something Taj Mahal might have made if he had a more melancholy streak - that ponders various crises: the narrator's desertion by his wife, so distraught that she leaves her daughter behind, in the title track; the weary resignation of a couple at the end of their rope...
...asleep during the Monica Lewinsky affair? Have its executives never watched "Judge Judy"? Americans watch television to wallow in scandal, not avoid it. NBC should be all over pill-popping athletes - yes, including our own guys and gals - and if it does the job responsibly, viewers will reward it. The Athens games, shaping up to be a fiesta of poor planning and security risks, should supply plenty of dirt for an enterprising network sports operation, and NBC should be on top of it like white on feta cheese...
America has always carried on a peculiar and somewhat messy love affair with Puritanism. True, the original group of sober, brown-hatted colonists have long since slipped into the darkness of New England cemeteries and Barker Center seminars, their memories preserved only through The Crucible and the grimly authoritarian spire of Mather House. But the Puritan impulse, with its mix of overheated moralism and apocalyptic fervor, is alive and well in American politics. And the most puzzling of these latter-day Puritans emerge every election season, toting charts and graphs and public policy initiatives, all intended to prove what their...
...seems clear that Horton deserved a much harsher sentence, though no one knows what confidential information Lopez considered in her chambers. Regardless, Gov. Cellucci's responses to this sordid affair have done little to help. His proposals would result in more injustice than they would prevent...
Raising Boston subway fares has always been an emotional affair. In 1948, a fare hike from ten to fifteen cents inspired one of the great folk songs of the 20th century, J. Steiner and Bess Lomax Hawes' "The MTA Song." The ballad tells the story of a man named Charlie who rides "forever 'neath the streets of Boston," without a nickel to pay the subway's new exit fare. Walter O'Brien, a Boston politician, used the tale of the famous "man who never returned" in his 1948 mayoral campaign, promising to repeal the fare hike and "get Charlie...