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...subpoena internal government documents that might shed light on whether racial profiling had been used to target Lee in the first place. Both rulings threatened to make a trial unpleasant for the government. Lee's lawyers planned to portray him as an unlikely spook, more bumbling and naive than clever and secretive, who had asked for a colleague's help in moving the files - curious tradecraft...
...Wasp Star: Apple Venus, Volume 2" Now down to a three-piece, these reliable purveyors of too-clever-by-half pop music have stripped down their production aesthetic as well in this bookend to last year's "Volume 1," which offered the more laid-back portion of the Venus collection. Fans of crafty, riff-driven XTC warhorses like "Respectable Street" will immediately respond to " Playground," whose natural buoyancy reaffirms Andy Partridge's mastery of the thinking person's guitar rock. There's no denying that departed guitarist/multi-instrumentalist's Dave Gregory textural touch is missed, and the song quality...
...Castellanos, whose past work includes a race-baiting Jesse Helms advertisement showing white hands ripping up a job rejection letter, has struck an unapologetic stance over the subliminal blip. "We don't play ball that way," he told reporters Monday. "I'm not that clever." Unfortunately for Castellanos, the rest of us aren't that stupid. We know that political advertising is a high-stakes game; ads are built from the ground up, and every single frame is scrutinized for unwelcome intrusions and subtle messages. Somebody on Castellanos's staff deliberately injected the "RATS" frame, and now everybody is playing...
TALKING A GOOD GAME When you've got both hands wrapped around a flamethrower, you can hardly be expected to take a phone call. That's why Microsoft came up with the SideWinder Game Voice ($54.95), a clever gadget that lets online gamers talk among themselves while they play. Since the call is placed over the Internet, you don't even have to pay for long distance. Friends sold separately...
...always loved going back to school; for the first couple of days, at least, the whole new school year experience was exceedingly pleasant. My parents would take me to get new school supplies, and my clever and often ear-splitting negotiating tactics meant that I had a good shot at returning home with a new, utterly useless prize, like a special bendable pencil or a cherry-scented pen. On the eve of the new school year, I would organize my new loot carefully, caressing the shiny loose-leaf folders, sharpening the pencils, testing out the pink erasers...