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...sucking down little potfuls of jambalaya and endless blue glasses of champagne, courtesy of the House. Those with long arms grab quesadillas and chunks of blue-dyed chicken off of platters that seem to float above the crowd, held high by waiters who bustle unseen through the surrounding crush of people. It would be impossible, at this point, to fall, much less move anyplace, because a dense knot of bodies presses in from every direction. More TV camera lights flare up--Entertainment Tonight and CBS--and the room becomes one crowded, sweaty, hyperthermic, and increasingly drunk exercise in swirling claustrophobia...
Time is not on the side of innocent civilians caught in a bloody war zone. Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky said it best recently in The New York Times: "As you pour yourself a scotch, crush a roach, or check your watch, as your hand adjusts your tie, people die. In the towns with funny names, hit by bullets, caught in flames, by and large not knowing why, people...
...Cranky, Shaggahs, Fudge Factory and The Teeth on Thursday, Nov. 5 upstairs. Brave New World, Common ailments, and Heavenly Medicated Fairytales on Saturday, Nov. 7 upstairs. 5th Anniversary of Rock-N-roll on Tuesday, Nov. 10 upstairs. Fleshtones, Parade, Hotbox, and Pooka Stew on Thursday, Nov. 5 downstairs. Velvet Crush Dambuilders, Versus and Monsterland on Friday, Nov. 6 downstairs. 360's, Seven League Boots, Paper Squares and Muskellunge on Saturday, Nov. 7 downstairs. John Lincoln Wright and the Sour Mash Boys on Sunday, Nov. 8 downstairs. Anastasia Screamed on Tuesday, Nov. 10 downstairs...
...starting to run well as a pack. A little more depth would be nice, but if we keep running this way, we should crush teams like Princeton at the [Heptagonal Tournament]," Failla said...
...they topple him, they will ask for the restoration of Iraq's sovereignty and territorial integrity. They will also insist on every dictatorship's favorite principle of international law: noninterference in internal affairs. That would mean a license to send Baghdad's bombers and troops north to crush the Kurds...