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...Philippine military is proud, and insists the whole buildup is nothing but a "training exercise," albeit in a live-fire zone. They do not like to be considered a proxy army like the Northern Alliance. "This is our war," says Reyes, "we will fight it ourselves." In Lamitan, Private First Class Pawake Salian insists, "If we try hard enough, we will find them." That's the right spirit - especially from a soldier who has just finished a month-long tour in the jungle, without once bumping into the Abu Sayyaf...
...being just plain weird—but not really wearing anything you might want to buy. Take Terry Richardson’s “Campaign for Sisley,” where we get to see close up a couple rutting in the hay: The image is interesting, albeit a little revolting, but there’s no way that anyone is going to imagine themselves with the clothes the models are—or are not—wearing...
...Nowhere,” all weepy horns and crashing waves, is a swirling brew of post-honeymoon nostalgia. But while most studio artists end up overwhelming listeners with impossibly dense sample-scapes (Cornelius’ own Fantasma was one of those everything-and-the-kitchen-sink records, albeit an especially good one), Point is an effortless listen, achieving a flawless balance between noise and space. It is this extra breathing room that shows where Cornelius is coming from: rather than show off the size of his record collection, he is fascinated with the musicality of noise in and of itself...
...dawn of the 20th century, the roster of illnesses that spelled almost inevitable death seemed to stretch forever. Cancer, heart disease, kidney disease, cirrhosis, pneumonia, cholera, diphtheria, tuberculosis and even the flu were relentless killers. Some victims might hang on to eke out a normal life span, albeit in disability and pain; some might even recover entirely. But survival was purely a crapshoot, with depressingly unfavorable odds. The hospital was a place where people went to die, not to be cured...
...campaign contributions to prominent Democrats, such as Senate Energy Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman and Louisiana Senator John Breaux. Enron and its top officials have hired the well-known Democratic lawyers Robert Bennett and David Boies. And Bob Rubin, the Democrats' high priest of economics and finance, was caught fishing-albeit tentatively by all accounts-for Treasury intervention on Enron's behalf...