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...central motif. That title track is perhaps best representative of everything that goes wrong on the disc. The staleness of the song’s lyrics perfectly complements the deja-entendu feeling one gets upon listening to it. In a brief, speak-singing interlude, she spells out the words that make up her lyrics while squeaky girls giggle in the background. Lavigne sounds far too much like another pop star on the track, without matching her ingenuity: B-A-N-A-N-A-S, anyone? In short, “The Best Damn Thing” makes you want...
...Hussein's manipulation of the United Nations Oil-for-Food program was another step up for Rudd. He showed his colleagues that he could dig in for a long fight, keeping political pressure on the Howard government last year despite no evidence of ministerial misconduct. It was a complicated brief to try to implicate the government in the $300 million scam, especially as the company's executives were the focus. But the experience proved that Rudd and his young advisers were relentless. Month after month, Rudd had a staffer sitting in on the Cole Commission hearings; the boss might...
Measuring his resume against my brief careers as a figure skater (age five) and a goalie (pee-wee soccer), I was fairly sure that Donato would accept. I’ve seen him skate in practice, and the former forward is nothing if not competitive. And a shootout with me...well, it looks pretty much like a guaranteed...
...creation of Hezbollah, the context in which it developed, its current place in the Middle East and the world, and his predictions for its future. For those looking for a background of this prominent group, “Hezbollah: A Short History” provides a thorough yet terrifically brief 200-page overview. If only more classroom text writers would take a page out of Norton’s book...
...late February, the two major stock markets in China dropped sharply, and that helped trigger a brief global sell-off. Investors panicked, fearing that the Chinese economy was somehow falling off a cliff. As Thursday's growth number shows, that wasn't so. Not even close. Now, however, global markets are focused on a better question: is China's growth so strong that it is going to fuel inflation, followed by sharply higher interest rates, and, conceivably, problems in a deeply dysfunctional domestic banking system? And, will there be a hard landing, meaning a sharp reduction in growth from around...