Word: blum
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...from a broken land,” announces Jason Stollsteimer, the singer with a broken face. As ubiquitous as Stollsteimer’s battered image became following his thrashing at the hands of former mentor Jack White, the stars on this album are bassist Carrie Smith and drummer Don Blum. Their powerful playing breathes new urgency into a blues-rock formula that’s already starting to grow stale on the edges...
Aside from their appealing songs and vibrant energy, the Von Bondies are also an uncommonly diverse rock band. The group is half girls, half guys, and drummer Dom Blum is one of very few Asian-American rockers. “Virtually anyone who comes to one of our shows can probably identify with one of us, which is pretty unique,” says Smith. “It’s an image too, but we were never conscious of it. Marcie and I just happened to be girls. I mean, we could play music and just happened...
...ducks with cornmeal through a tube put down their throats several times a day, causing their livers to enlarge. Guillermo Gonzalez, owner of the Stockton foie gras farm, says the procedure doesn't harm the birds, whose livers are enlarged naturally in the wild before they migrate. Counters Sarahjane Blum, a spokeswoman for GourmetCruelty.com "If this were being done to dogs or cats, the producers would without a doubt be in prison for animal cruelty." Anyone for caviar? --By Terry McCarthy
...even infinitesimally different from dictators. Take, for example, the public's veneration of Premier Zhou Enlai toward the end of the Cultural Revolution. That reverence had much more to do with disillusionment with Mao than evidence that Zhou was truly another kind of leader. As the French politician L?on Blum once said, "I believe it because I hope for it." The Chinese public might mistake benevolence from their ruler for democratic values and might confuse administrative reforms with real political reforms?but the leadership will...
...created," said University of Chicago Law Professor Cass Sunstein. Her opinion ensures that Powell's universe, in which race is a factor in admissions but can't be used in a quota or point system, will remain in place. "That precedent (Bakke) has now been codified into law," said Blum...