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Since the creation of the Pompidou, Piano has been known for understatement and for creating buildings modern buildings that blend with their surroundings...
...government monopoly. While many countries have privatized their postal systems, the USPS has a foot stuck in each world. It is a semiprivate corporation with a lumbering government bureaucracy. It is run by a board of governors made up not of crack chief executives but of a folksy blend of local politicians, small-town business leaders and federal bureaucrats. The board has no postal experience, and Postmaster General William Henderson, a 28-year USPS veteran, has no other experience in business...
Unfortunately, the creative lyrics are masked by the band's unwillingness to relax and let their instruments fit the lyrics. This makes many of the songs blend together. "Want Ad King" may wax philosophic ("If life was Equus I'd be Burton/Philosophically uncertain/Not the screw-up kid with the religious mom") but the lead guitar sounds exactly the same as on "East Hampton," the next track. As the sequence of 16 songs progresses, some of the stronger tunes, such as the catchy "So Eureka," end up being overlooked...
...shivers that's shielded by your skin, Submarine submerges, dives deep into those secret spots behind your consciousness that only glow with the lights out. In their debut album SkinDiving, south London trio Al Boyd, Richard Jeffrey and Adaesi Ukairo have oozed out a unique and seductive blend of aquamarine electronic pulse. Lyrically intriguing, although sometime tempted to too-easy rhymes, SkinDiving strikes a perfect balance between vocal and vibration...
...scale of Europe?s industrial revolution, they?re perceived as a mortal threat to the very survival of the Chinese state. It?s that thinking that has driven the crackdown on the Falun Gong religious sect over the past 18 months. Despite the group?s apparently harmless blend of Buddhism, exercise and mysticism, the idea of a nationwide organizational structure to rival the Communist Party?s was intolerable to the leaders in Beijing. And concerns over the social impact of economic liberalization have seen Zhu increasingly eclipsed in Beijing?s leadership by hard-liners grouped around People?s Assembly chairman...