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Understandably then, the newest Who offering comes as a shock. It's Hard triumphantly reaffirms the power and relevance of Townshend's music, from the opening notes of "Athena" to the distorted, chaotic guitar chords that end "Cry if You Want." Not in a long while have The Who had so much to say and said it so impressively...
...Iran's domestic situation becomes more chaotic, so does its international position. The surprise Iranian offensive against Iraq that began on July 13 has been repulsed, creating an unprecedented crisis of morale on the home front. Iranian army officers blame the failure of the military thrust, which was designed to bring down the Baathist regime of Iraqi
Fassbinder's own story begins in 1946, with a physician father and a mother who translated Truman Capote into German. "It was a chaotic house," he recalled in 1975. "The normal bourgeois order was not valid...
...when Turkey was struggling for its very existence, Armenians openly sided with Russia and became a threat to eastern Turkey. An ill-conceived attempt to secure the Russian front by deporting the Armenian population from the border provinces to the south resulted in many deaths. It was a desperate, chaotic time, when many Turks also starved and atrocities were committed by both sides. Labeling a wartime tragedy with terms such as genocide and holocaust will not help heal old wounds...
Exasperation with high crime and chaotic justice does not always produce hasty, broad-brush legislation. Determinate or presumptive sentencing, now the law in eleven states, is a more thoughtful kind of overhaul, a necessary reform of an old reform gone awry. Beginning around 1900, indeterminate sentences?"two to five" or "ten to 20"?became common. As soon as a prisoner could convince a parole board that he had learned his lesson, he could go. Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau says that "prisoners tend to go into rehabilitation programs for the purpose of convincing the parole board that they...