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...Jason Spevack, needs to go to private school), Rose gets into the more lucrative end of the cleaning business: tidying up suicides and sponging up blood and guts at crime scenes, a plot apparently inspired by an NPR story. She takes as her partner her sister Norah (Emily Blunt), a young woman who has so consistently screwed up that she's practically paralyzed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sunshine Cleaning: The Bright Side of Suicide | 3/11/2009 | See Source »

...America's 16 intelligence agencies by and large consider chatter the most reliable intelligence there is. But they also need to constantly remind themselves that it is a blunt tool, often as confusing as it is illuminating. The day of the meltdown of the Chernobyl reactor in 1986, there was initially a sharp spike in Soviet message traffic. The intelligence community knew something bad had just happened. But what? The immediate speculation was a change of Soviet leadership or even a plane crash. It wasn't until more reporting emerged, including that by the media, that it was understood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Intelligence Lapses: The Risks of Relying on 'Chatter' | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

...merely attempting to patch the ailing economy, this comprehensive budget plan promises to “rebuil[d] its foundations.” Saturated with spending projections for health care, carbon-emissions caps, and education, the budget also prudently identifies funding sources, turning what may have been a blunt instrument into a refined tool. In short, the budget is another excellent step toward economic recovery...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: A Budget to End All Budgets | 3/1/2009 | See Source »

...knew where or when this was,” she wonders, as her junkie roommate tries to convince her to perform an abortion on herself using bleach and a tampon. Having rendered her own credibility as a narrator questionable, the story is further complicated by blunt, unprecedented chronological leaps that often reveal a character’s future demise within a short, humorous story. As this fatalistic narrative proceeds, Mun attempts to douse her inherently despondent story with hope. Joon’s stalling biography culminates in a spasmodically positive acceleration that uselessly heaps a sudden dose of optimism upon...

Author: By Roxanne J. Fequiere, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mun's Bronx Burns, Obscures | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...band is still full of teenage angst. The song “Take My Heart” opens the album with a hackneyed blues guitar riff and the whiney, gruff singing of frontman Cole Alexander. “Big Black Baby Jesus Of Today” continues these blunt statements of rebellion while adding in some maracas to compensate for the slower pace. Full of standard guitar riffs, simple rock beats, and sapless whining, these songs lacks any real substance and raise the question of whether or not the Black Lips are really as label bending as they claim...

Author: By Matt E. Sachs, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Black Lips | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

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