Word: bitters
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...From the Falklands to the Spratlys, history is littered with bloody feuds over scraps of territory that seem stunningly unimportant to more detached observers. Roh's speech, with its bitter reference to Japan's "criminal history of waging wars of aggression and annihilation," was a powerful reminder of how emotionally charged such disputes can be-and of how strained the relationship between Korea and Japan has the potential to become...
...Rhode Island this week. “Given past history, what do you really expect?”Expect this: once again the Red Rolfe title, and a berth in the Ivy League Championship Series (ICS), will come down to a split home-and-home doubleheader between two bitter archrivals. Tomorrow, the Crimson (18-16-1, 12-4 Ivy) will host Dartmouth (17-16, 11-5) at 1 p.m. on O’Donnell Field. On Sunday, the Big Green will return the favor with a two-game homestand against Harvard at Dartmouth.With a one-game edge...
...four years ago, defected in large numbers this time around to the camp of third-place finisher Ron Forman, president and CEO of the Audubon Nature Institute. But Forman endorsed Landrieu Monday afternoon, despite the fact that Landrieu's long family affiliation with Democratic politics could be a bitter pill for many of Forman's Republican followers...
...Fiery Furnaces “Bitter Tea” (Fat Possum) 4 Stars The press packet issued with “Bitter Tea,” the new album from art-rock sibling duo The Fiery Furnaces, contained a delightful little Easter egg: the transcript of an email written by Matthew Friedberger, the band’s lyricist and instrumentalist, to their publicist. The email contains the most pretentious bit of prose ever committed to the page (or monitor). Since no summary of mine could capture the unmitigated pompousness of the offending passage, I quote it for you here...
...ponied up more than $1 billion to see it through the banking scandal--more leverage to drive reform. Most critical for business is the debilitated electricity sector: 45% of the national utility's receivables go unpaid, requiring a government subsidy of $620 million last year. Such is the bitter fruit of decades of political favoritism, and donors such as the World Bank say they want to see an aggressive--and unprecedented--crackdown on delinquent customers, no matter how, uh, connected they are. "If you don't address the issue of the large consumers who don't pay, you have...