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...Cassadaga.” Frontman Conor Oberst writes with an ear for lyrical subtleties, and he just seems so helpless and sweet with that delicate voice of his that it’s hard to hate him. But though this album may be more mature—and country??than previous Bright Eyes records, it’s hard to reconcile Oberst’s explorations of mortality, love, and time with his occasional emo episodes of self-indulgence. The first track, “Clairaudients (Kill or Be Killed),” opens with...
South African opposition leader Tony Leon questioned several of his government’s recent decisions and called the country??s foreign policy “schizophrenic” in a speech at the Law School yesterday. The head of the Democratic Alliance, South Africa’s leading opposition party, Leon criticized the country??s ties to Saddam Hussein’s government during the time the Iraqi dictator was in power, the country??s decision to veto a United Nations resolution condemning human-rights violations in Myanmar, and its policy...
...flight from war-torn southern Sudan, his travels in East Africa, and his emigration to the United States. The raid that displaced Dau occurred in the midst of the Second Sudanese Civil War, a conflict between Sudan’s northern Arab government and non-Arab forces in the country??s south that ended in 2005. After fleeing his village in distress, enduring extreme hunger and thirst, and weathering ambushes by Arab troops, Dau eventually reached a refugee camp in Ethiopia, he said last night. There, Dau explained, he became an informal leader among a group...
...urged powers in Iraq to engineer a fair distribution of the country??s oil, protection of minority rights, and a balance of power between Baghdad and outside regions...
...think what was particularly galling about it is that we are one of the top programs in the country??we are currently ranked number 2 out of about 600 teams. And we can barely afford to compete...