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...Area punk band. Not only that, but he knew the teen genre because in high school he worked as a children's librarian, and as part of the job he downed all the young-adult classics. The Mr. T Experience's teen anthems were surprisingly literary: a breakup song, Checkers Speech, is based on Nixon's television address, and Institutionalized Misogyny name-checks Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault. Another ditty neatly summed up male teenage sexual frustration with the song title Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend...
...latest eruption of sectarian violence in Baghdad, which began with a mortar and car-bomb attack by Sunni insurgents on Thursday, is sure to accelerate the cleansing. The constant churn of people moving and resettling is an indication of how far the country has moved toward an irreversible breakup, similar to the one the world witnessed in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s. Al-Qaeda in Iraq's bloody campaign against Shi'ites nationwide has ensured that almost all of western Iraq is clear of Shi'ites. Iraq's Kurdish territory in the north has all but seceded...
...ways and suspends uranium enrichment. Otherwise, both men say, Iran will be isolated. But there's something almost comical about Blair and Bush setting preconditions for a conversation in which, however they might spin it, they're asking for help. Tehran ultimately shares an interest in preventing a breakup of Iraq, but the mayhem currently unfolding there hurts the U.S. and Britain a lot more than it does Iran. On balance, it hardly makes sense to Iran to help the U.S. and Britain in Iraq without getting anything in return...
...decade, Sinatra pushed to make a cohesive LP at a time when no one else in the record business was thinking beyond singles. Finally his breakup with Ava Gardner provided the perfect catalyst. These 16 ballads, recorded in just a few days, are the authoritative take on masculine loneliness...
...should have no illusions: partitioning Iraq would not be easy. Some groups would resist bloodily. But the adverse consequences of partition have already occurred. There's no reason to believe that formalizing Iraq's breakup would make anything worse--in fact, it might even help contain the violence. It's useful to outline the three main arguments raised against partition and explain why none are as convincing as their proponents portray them...