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...Arguably, the most challenging was the blind events, where competitors studied puzzles, donned blindfolds, and solved cubes by memory. Matyas Kuti, 14, of home nation Hungary stunned the Rubik's community by solving 18 successive cubes while blindfolded over a span of just 46 minutes (he was able to take off his blindfold between puzzles and briefly study each new cube): a performance that tournament spokesperson Ray Hodges hailed as a work of "genius...
...sweeping reform, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has repeatedly pledged a "rupture" with the past habits, attitudes and endless calculating that have frozen so many of his country's previous governments into virtual immobility. One area he's done just that is in assembling his government under the ideologically blind policy of "ouverture" - the "opening" of cabinet posts to erstwhile leftists opponents whose talents Sarkozy believes will serve the nation well. But while initially applauded by many pundits for ignoring traditional hostilities that have previously made bipartisan governments impossible in France, there are now signs that Sarkozy's political pragmatism...
...soldiers in Karbala were a small team of Army trainers and civil affairs officers working with local officials and area police. That ended in January, however, when an attack by unknown gunmen left five U.S. soldiers dead. Since then, all the population centers in southern Iraq have become virtual blind spots for U.S. forces struggling to keep tabs on the weapons and fighters thought to be moving through the area. The military's provincial reconstruction teams carry on some work in southern Iraq. And in Diwaniya, a town east of Najaf, military trainers continue to work with local security forces...
...ocean of keyboard hum. Krug’s talent for building tension is unquestionable, and the song offers what may be the album’s schizophrenic manifesto: “And chaos is yours / And chaos is mine / And chaos is love and they say love is blind.” Centerpiece “Stallion” clocks in at over six drab, confused minutes and is, quite possibly, the album’s most glaring error. The song is a case study for what can go wrong when creative vision and baroque lyrical aspirations take precedence over...
...families, don’t they?” said a source who refused to be named. “They respond to threats, don’t they? We’re going to bring Prohibition back in a big way. Enjoy your Third Eye Blind, suckers, because jumping around a muddy New Yard is the closest you’ll ever be to ‘getting sloshed’ ever again...