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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...best out of these players and you can't do that shouting at anyone," he told reporters. Instead, Reid puts his primitive Thai to comic effect on the training ground. "Despite the language problem, you can have laughs," he says, before gamely - if not entirely successfully - attempting to count to five in Thai...
...Every liberal leader except two have become Prime Minister,” said Wiseman. “But I wouldn’t count my chickens before they hatch...
...These should have been the golden years for climate change activists, who count scores of Nobel scientists, countless Hollywood celebrities, and the entire Third World among their allies. So many books, so many films, so many conferences and papers and symposia, and here is the most damning evidence of all that, even if acknowledging the problem is half the solution, it is only half...
...Lotus Eaters.” Referencing Homer’s Odyssey is about as old school as the Western literary tradition goes, so props for that, Nick. 4. The Mars Volta’s “Bedlam in Goliath.” You can pretty much always count on The Mars Volta to do something you can’t understand, be it Latinate lyrics or utterly insane concept albums like this one. “Bedlam” took its inspiration from a Ouija board and the contact with the dead it supposedly facilitates. Tracks like...
Reach as far back into Illinois history as you like and your hands will likely come out dirty. Blagojevich is the sixth Illinois governor to be subjected to arrest or indictment - seventh if you count Joel Aldrich Matteson (governor from 1853-1857), who tried to cash $200,000 of stolen government scrip he "found" in a shoebox. Matteson pulled a "how-did-that-get-there?" excuse and escaped indictment by promising to pay it back. (Oddly, this isn't Illinois's only shoebox-full-of-money scandal; after former secretary of state Paul Powell's death in 1970, a search...