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...Beat and the one-minute punk-stomp We've Got a File on You do just that. Punctuating the mood like an ice bucket over the head, they remind us that this is the band that wrote Song 2. The most satisfying tracks are those that borrow from the Clash, such as Gene by Gene, though with Albarn's jumping-on-the-trailer thing. The final track, Battery in Your Leg - the only one which features Coxon - is a plaintive ode to the past. Sings Albarn, "This is a ballad for the good times," and Coxon's spacey guitar loops...
...Clash Of The Administration Titans," your story on the foreign-policy feud between Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell over how to rebuild a post-Saddam Iraq [THE RECONSTRUCTION, April 14]: What are the frothing-at-the-mouth military hawks going to say next? That Powell is an unpatriotic traitor for wanting the State Department and the U.N. to have a role in Iraq? The world view espoused by neoconservatives such as Rumsfeld--in which the Pentagon would slam the door on the U.N., Britain, the State Department and anyone else who has a problem...
...rebuilding the country following the fall of the Taliban THE INQUIRER: Prompted by the murder of Daniel Pearl, above, Lévy traveled widely to expose the role of Islamic militants in Pearl's death. Lévy claims that Pearl - "a refutation of his killers' view of a clash of civilizations" - was murdered before he could reveal links between al-Qaeda and Pakistani intelligence chiefs...
...colonial presence in Algeria, in the 1970s against the Soviet Union, in the 1990s against the Serbs in Bosnia. "It's always easier to be a fascist than a democrat," he says. "Daniel Pearl was killed because he was a living refutation of his killers' view of a clash of civilizations: he was a Jew curious about Islamic culture who had moved beyond condemnation. In this Manichaeistic epoch, some people can't stand such figures and want to eliminate them." Lévy is devoted to keeping Pearl's legacy of understanding alive, but suggests that it won't happen...
Into the Unknown in Iraq Security decisions will stay in U.S. hands after 'sovereignty' is handed to Iraqi caretakers. But what happens when they clash? [04/21/2004...