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...liberating Cuba, the hard-liners have, in a perverse way, always been Castro's friends. "The belligerent actions of the hard-line exiles in Miami simply keep giving Castro an excuse to crack down on us," says dissident leader Elizardo Sanchez. Post-Castro Cuba, he insists, will be governed by moderates, not right-wing exiles. The same, perhaps, may someday be said of Miami...
...gurdy of the hip-hop beat," from "Mystic Child"). Most of the songs deal with Lou Reed's long defunct marriage and the emotion does shine through, anger and sadness and helplessness reflected through the sparse chords. But then there's the other stuff, the stuff that goes "Smoking crack with a downtown flirt/Shooting and coming 'til it hurts" (from "Like a Possum"). And there...
...social journal otherwise known as Teen Beat. I shamefully indulge in evaluating the subtleties of e-mails sent between Britney Spears and Prince William, absorbing every tidbit of insight regarding potential lovebirds Joey and Pacey, and critiquing Christina Aguilera's newest 'do (yup, she is still ugly). Like sneaking crack cocaine across the border, I must adeptly shroud the zine behind the German intellectual tradition so that the library checker or a curious student does not catch a glimpse of my sinful adolescent delight...
...will. There's no doubt that physiological brain activity is the cause of experience. Thoughts and feelings can be started, stopped or altered by electricity and chemicals, and they throw off signals that can be read with electrodes and other assays. I also have little doubt that we will crack the mystery of consciousness, in the sense of which brain events correlate with experience. Just compare brain activity when a person is awake or anesthetized, or when a novice is thinking about his golf swing and when a pro does it automatically...
...officer said there was a gas leak, and that we should crack our windows and get out," Meszaros said...