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There is a strange bipolarity in the Australian psyche. Compare the louche abandon of the Sydney Mardi Gras with the gruff, homophobic machismo of the outback. Contrast the shining, multicultural cities with rural outposts where shadowy, armed survivalists zealously prophesize an Indonesian invasion. And consider the country's strangely conflicted attitude to immigrants: for every legal settler that gives thanks for the unfettered hospitality of the Lucky Country?as Australia has been famously known since the 1960s?you can line up a woebegone refugee from Afghanistan, Uganda or China who rues the day he or she ever made landfall there...
...Aretha is radio-ready. It doesn't take much to make the timeless timely. If Franklin uses melody as a base camp on her way to bigger things, Sinéad O'Connor clings to it as if it were the only haven between her and the abyss. The contrast in styles is made conveniently clear on O'Connor's new double album, She Who Dwells ..., which features a spectacular cover of Do Right Woman. Where Franklin started the song in pieces and pulled herself toward an emotional victory, O'Connor opens Do Right Woman deceptively whole. She does...
...many of its judgments rested on spotty data, and that its most newsworthy claim - that Iraq could use weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes - applied only to battlefield systems. On the core question of whether Blair hyped the case for war, the report revealed an intriguing omission. In contrast to the publicity he gave the dossier, which backed his argument, he kept mum about a later intelligence assessment that concluded a war would actually make it easier for terrorists to get their hands on Saddam's arsenal. Blair told the committee he judged that risk was less than that...
...Presumably had he decided to step down earlier, his legacy would have been decidedly mixed,” Lawrence said. “By contrast, today, he was very good at making the school grow and he proved to be good at tightening its belt...
Byrne, by contrast, insisted that he had spoken to her in a manner that was “stern” but always “fatherly...