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Nation building is exceedingly tough, which in part is why Bush ran against the concept in 2000. This year he claimed he could turn the U.S.'s troubled Iraq enterprise into some kind of success. His Administration's broad failure to adequately plan for the postwar peace left him to tack and turn as the occupation went sour. On the stump, Bush brushed all that aside with loads of optimistic rhetoric about Iraq's democratic future, but his policy is still more sentiment than strategy. Back in the Oval Office, he's going to have to start filling...
Martin said his company is “taking this concept...to the next level by offering premium product...
...concept behind Aina Arts is its method of operations: Bakshi’s organization works with a group of children for several weeks, observing the ways in which the group could supplement the students’ everyday lives with art. He said, “We looked for the use of arts in religious practices, in daily practices, in special ceremonies and celebrations striving to see art in its broadest conception.” Then the group teaches the children to see the same beauty and art that they have observed. According to Bakshi, “Our goal...
...parallel is early Beck: obscure, illogical, culturally hyper-aware, teetering on the verge of kitsch. It’s a pity Ariel Pink doesn’t have Beck’s talent, or this album might have been a lo-fi classic instead of a half-fleshed out concept. The Doldrums is troglodytic music: the detritus of decades pushed underground and reformed into something unsettling and unfit for the light...
When I first heard about The O.C.—the surprise hit tween drama on Fox that began its second season yesterday—I was shocked and a little angry. Once again, Hollywood had taken a ridiculous concept and ran with it, at the expense of everyone from Southern California like myself. This trend began with Orange County, the hopelessly terrible movie with Jack Black and Forrest Gump’s kid, and now, I feared, this would become a long-running fad. Having grown up in Orange County—specifically Irvine, a particularly plastic suburb?...