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...their careers. Few of them actually do it. Beck is among the few. After 1999's Midnite Vultures, essentially a postmodern rap comedy album, what Beck wants to do is be direct. Sea Change, his seventh and best album (out this week), is a simple affair. It's a breakup record--almost all the songs are ballads--with a slight country-blues feel. There's little of Beck's trademark musical schizophrenia and none of his arch humor. "I just wanted the record to be simple and clean," he says. "I wanted economy in the lyrics, and I wanted...
...President Putin harbors a deep, visceral dislike of Georgia's President Eduard Shevardnadze. Russian leaders blame him for his key role - while serving as Gorbachev's foreign minister in the late 1980s - in the breakup of the Soviet Union, its retreat from Eastern Europe, and Georgia's move into the NATO orbit. Russians feel that control over Georgia is their birthright and also a vital component of their own security...
...media spotlight, to bang away at the view shared by many Serbs that their country should not be singled out for its role in the Balkan wars. In recent opinion polls, Serbs still blame Croat nationalism, nato and the United States - not Serb aggression - for starting the breakup of Yugoslavia. "He's telling people what they want to hear," says a tribunal official in Belgrade. Shortly before the trial started this February, the Kosovo Albanian publisher Veton Surroi said he hoped Serbs would use the opportunity "to open their souls and say, 'Where was I when that happened? Where were...
...maybe it will jump up on him after an acrobatic pass breakup. Or, if it’s a good day, maybe it won’t happen until halftime, when no one will notice...
...properly and ended properly. He points out that the objectives were set, the war fought and won, and to world acclaim America went home, avoiding what could have been an endless and bloody bog. "Finishing the job" would have meant a huge and perhaps unsuccessful search for Saddam, the breakup of the coalition of Arab states and strain among European allies. And the body-bag specter, so big back then, is conveniently forgotten...