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Since Sept. 11, the Bush Administration has detained more than 1,000 noncitizens, waged a foreign war, helped Congress broaden wiretap authority, endorsed military trials for alien alleged terrorists and authorized eavesdropping on certain conversations between lawyers and clients. Most of these measures find support in past practice. But some raise serious doubts...
...Alliance, the war's critical turn came early this month when U.S. B-52s began hammering Taliban front lines dug in near Mazar and Kabul and further north, along the Tajik border. Despite U.S. frustration with the Alliance's sluggishness, the complexity of waging war in an alien, booby-trapped environment gave Pentagon strategists little choice but to embrace the rebels as a proxy ground force. For the first time, the Pentagon last week acknowledged that the U.S. has air-dropped guns and horse feed to Alliance forces. Meanwhile, U.S. Green Berets slipped into rebel-held territory and worked...
...Thursday evening in Axis on Lansdowne Street, and as a little blue light blinked on and off and a puff of fake fog wavered in the air, the Alien Ant Farm (AAF) swarmed onto the stage. Above the heads of the crowd beneath them, an inflated condom made its way toward the door. Two girls crouched against the wall of the small room and strained to hear their cell phones. And right in the center of the floor, twelve stiff-haired young men were braced to mosh to their hearts’ content, as soon as they played, like, that...
...Satanic, Slipknot-esque anger-rock, this is not. Welcome, friends, to nu-metal. Once, long ago, metal bands staggered into your town to loot and pillage. Then something weird happened, and suddenly a whole bunch of geeks simultaneously discovered the powers of shredding guitars. Now we have groups like Alien Ant Farm, who neither scream their words nor smash their instruments, though they’re not above “spanking” their guitars to get a giggle from the fans. AAF greet their audience with an amiable, if calculated, “everybody have...
It’s the rare fair-to-middling band that survives a jolt into the limelight. Will Alien Ant Farm be among the lucky ones? I’ve certainly been surprised before (Sugar Ray?), but with a name like Alien Ant Farm? Smells like Novelty...