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...flood of cheap goods and farm produce, and point to China's poor record on the environment and human rights. United Future party leader Peter Dunne is boycotting the Beijing signing ceremony in protest at China's crackdown in Tibet, but says abandoning the pact would be "a classic case of cutting off your nose to spite your face...
Like a studio releasing once censored scenes from a classic horror movie, on April 1 the Pentagon declassified a key memo used to justify the abuse of prisoners by the U.S. military in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay. Completed six days before the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the full text of the 81-page document is rife with shockingly broad edicts about prisoner treatment, like this barely constitutional chestnut: "In wartime, it is for the President alone to decide what methods to use to prevail against the enemy...
...It’s a remarkable play of tension and one that makes the album both thrilling and frightening.Take, for example, “Rivers.” Bejar holds off until just past the halfway mark, then cuts loose in a crash of screaming, cymbals, piano, and spastic classic rock guitar. Likewise, both “The State” and “Plaza of Trinidad” manage to merge country tinges, bluesy undertones, and prog-rock guitar, but both explode halfway through (with organs and screaming, respectively).When not engaging in their usual dramatics, Destroyer does...
Supplied with avocados, tomatoes, lemons, limes, and green onions, many teams chose to add in their own secret ingredients. Maren A. Shapiro ’10 tossed in spicy pepper, though her team focused on the provided ingredients. “We’re going for a classic guacamole,” she said...
...example, three muscles control the human eyebrow, shaping that portion of the face into an exponential number of expressions. Feeling distressed? Those muscles unconsciously knit the brows together and upward, pulling the eyes up at the inner corner. Think of that classic vision of perpetual existential angst, Woody Allen. It's a facial expression that O'Sullivan says can be performed by skilled actors like Allen. But, she says, "for most people when that [expression occurs], they're feeling distressed, and most people cannot make that movement voluntarily. So if you can't make it voluntarily then it's going...