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Following another woeful game, my spine grew intimate with the uncompromising floor of a studio apartment. That was the least of my worries, as the bitter cold forced me to don a hat and coat while attempting to fall asleep...
...sweat' - you can put that above Gates' door," says Richard Armitage, an old friend and colleague. Four years later, while serving as Deputy National Security Adviser under President George H.W. Bush, Gates was nominated again to be DCI. What followed was one of the longest and most bitter confirmation hearings in Senate records. CIA co-workers from the Soviet desk excoriated his character, his motives, his honesty. They called him a toady who'd fire dissenters and slant intelligence just to please his then boss, Casey. The hearings, which went on for seven weeks before Gates was finally confirmed, were...
Moore’s concern with emptiness, decay and missed social connections should not imply that “A Gate at the Stairs” lacks humor. It is riotously funny, and not in the sardonic, bitter way of more traditional tragicomedies. Its puns and its politics are bold and even ostentatious, but this novel’s significance lies in its tightly constructed details and its singular main character—irksome, charismatic and wholly convincing...
This is immediately followed by “200-102,” a daringly minimalist instrumental leading into “Straight in at 101.” “101” is a bitter, deeply uncomfortable track chronicling an empty relationship in typically adjective-laden fashion. It hints at the vivid humor that characterized earlier songs—“I think we need more post-coital and less post-rock / Feels like the build up takes forever, but you never get me off”—yet by the end Gareth still...
...average American; Congressional leaders must not resort to such convoluted and reductive measures to pass bills as important and complex as healthcare reform. Again, the best approach to take looking forward is open discussion of the issues on both sides of the aisle. Only pragmatic accommodation can reconcile the bitter partisanship plaguing this process...