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...confess that, even after all these years, my family still harbors a bit of resentment against the Japanese. When I was younger, my mother gave me a sidelong look as I told her about my new Japanese friend from school. Didn't I know the history of Japanese violence? Hadn't she told me enough times about Nanjing? Grandma would have a heart attack...
...refusal to pay for elective abortions also falls within the immediate penumbra of the free-speech right not to be forced to, as Supreme Court justices proclaimed, "confess by word or act" any particular view of "politics, nationalism, religion or other matter of opinion." The Supreme Court has protected under this aspect of free speech a Jehovah's Witness's refusal to salute the American flag and a refusal to carry a license plate with a libertarian state motto...
...restraint still isn't her strength. Alanislikes to confess, she likes to solve and workthrough her problems in words. And suddenly, itseems like she has the whole world as her musicalcanvas. After a trip to India and an explorationof Eastern religion, she offers us her perspectivenot only on love, but spirituality andenlightenment. Indian themes and phrases pop upall over the album, especially in "Thank U," thefirst single off the album currently saturatingairwaves. (If the "Indian experience" revitalizedMadonna's torpid career and reawakened Alanis,imagine what it could do for someone like CelineDion...
...resigned to my fate, I confess with humility, guilt and more than a little embarrassment: I have been Pussy-whipped...
...Talib Kweli are Black Star dropped, and the praise continues. One of my boys wrote me an e-mail message from upstate Massachussetts specifically to confess his amazement: "Yo this LP is ridiculous. Every track is plain dope. The beats are phat, the lyrics are intelligent, and yet it still has the feel of a demo." To this day I wonder how he managed to italicize using Pine...