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...skeptical Senate committee today with assurances that theU.S.-North Korea nuclear agreementwas a better choice than war. In fact, Perry revealed during his testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that he had considered a military strike last summer, but had ultimately rejected it as a likely prelude to all-out war in the Korean Peninsula. "That would involve the deployment of hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops, and that would involve a full-scale -- full-scale -- war," Perry said. Christopher assured the senators that the nuclear agreement -- which trades U.S. oil and Asian nuclear reactors...
Just what was so radical about Taylor's music? In essence, Cecil Taylor broke every rule, and smashed every convention that had been held sacred by the jazz world. His all-out assault on the hapless, half-tuned pianos that sat on the bandstands of most clubs meant that he not only broke the accepted standards of melody, harmony, and song structure, but also countless pianos themselves...
...only Taylor's piano technique, but his stamina itself is astonishing by the 1960s. The mental stamina needed to keep a group together in a period when he couldn't possibly make a living playing his music is matched by the physical stamina of a true athlete: Taylor's all-out assaults on the piano have both arms moving at a rate of hundreds and hundreds of machinegun rounds per minute; and he solos for up to thirty minutes on a stretch. The volume and intensity level of these performances is not merely the result of turning an amplifier...
...breaking ranks, itself gave up the demand 10 weeks ago. In late September the Clinton Administration, under congressional pressure, was quite prepared to go to the U.N. to get the arms embargo lifted. But the Bosnian government, knowing that outside peacekeepers were not about to stick around under circumstances of all-out war, decided it did not want to risk a fight to the finish after all and asked Washington not to proceed for six months. Dole has yet to catch...
...things in life can make an honest man. His mother. His wife. Tight gym shorts. And, a late-game, all-out, jock-in-your-face, full-court press...