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...elected a man who knows almost as little about them as they do about him. In an interview with TIME last Friday, after breakfast with former Mayor David Dinkins and before a sit-down with one of the city's most powerful unions, Bloomberg was giddy with possibility--a classic entrepreneurial reaction to bad odds. "If you think about it, it's amazing," he said. "I have the ability to bring together people from the right--business leaders--and at the same time, it turned out that I am a candidate of the minorities, on the left...
While one must laud guitarists Glenn Tipton and K. K. Downing for their technical skill, this is not an album chock-full of either memorable hooks or more than a few moments that inspire the same emotion as Priest classics like “Breakin’ the Law.” The album’s final track, “Metal Messiah,” shows, however, that Priest still contain the elements for fist-pumping arena action. The most up-tempo song on the album, it blasts open from the outset with a chugging and brutal riff...
...issue is not perfect accuracy: much officially released information is as correct as it can be in the immediate fog of war. More troubling is the occasional whiff of deception, incompetence or economy with truth. Recently, U.S. officials made classic, self-defeating errors. When the Taliban produced jerky video of a helicopter undercarriage marked "Boeing," the Pentagon dismissed it, citing the Taliban?s "completely outrageous . . . outright lies" and "exaggerations." The next day, it admitted the undercarriage of a Blackhawk helicopter was ripped off flying at low level. At first, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld insisted there was "absolutely no evidence" that...
...sound is atypical in that their melodies can be at once punishing and low and then sweet and elegant. Tankian’s voice matches the flexibility of the guitar as he stretches his vocal range from a hellish roar to the floating timbre of a classic tenor...
When No. 24 Harvard hosts No. 19 Penn tomorrow afternoon, the essential ingredients of a college football classic will be in place—crisp autumn weather, the ivy-clad walls of a majestic stadium and two record-breaking senior quarterbacks...