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...that the Nam Theun 2 dam can help fix it. The project is the cornerstone of the government's giddy goal of becoming the "battery of Southeast Asia," and has been on the drawing board for almost 20 years. The dam will flood an area the size of Singapore, bleed one river almost dry and swell another, force the relocation of 6,200 people, and affect as many as another 100,000 living in and around the country's central Nakai Plateau. A joint project between the Laos government and a consortium of international companies led by the France...
...know what to make of Sweetheart, in part because they tend to evoke equal numbers of positive and negative associations in their listeners. The sound of this Kent, Ohio quartet is easy enough to describe: a driving weave of melodic guitar lines combined with vocal harmonies that occasionally bleed into fast, screamy breakdowns. But just as it is impossible to listen to this CD without the party of helicopter’s seminal Mt. Forever coming to mind, it is equally difficult to tune out the strains of any number of mediocre pop-punk bands...
...birth of the Chinese republic, the Japanese occupation, the civil war, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and the money-obsessed Deng Xiaoping era, Jintong's feisty sisters are killed off by war and other masculine misdeeds. And, as in other Mo Yan novels, peasants suffer and bleed while Communist functionaries strut, blunder and suck the country dry as Jintong's mother's breasts. The lad survives, though not without 15 years in prison, three in a mental institution and nearly a lifetime in thrall to his mammary fixation. "Whenever I saw a beautiful breast, my mouth would fill...
...what? The elections are over. The euphoria is passing. Iraqis will now begin the hard work of negotiation, coalition building and their first real politics in 30 years. Americans will continue to bleed defending that fledgling democracy. And critics of the war will have to acknowledge that something new and good has happened in Iraq, although, like Senator John Kerry, they will couch it in sage warnings not to "overhype this election...
President Bush may have spent his undergraduate years at Yale, but his recent picks for top government positions bleed Crimson...