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...similar flavors: British and American. British punk developed in the late 70’s as sort of disillusioned political outgrowth from lower-class neighborhoods, influenced by old-school rock n’ roll as well as reggae. Offshoots included ska, and later oi, music. American punk, taking its cue almost directly from the British punk sound and attitude, was formulated as a direct affront to the overly commercial arena rock scene of the preceding decade. Since that time, on either side of the Atlantic, punk has been an institution more than a musical genre—it?...
...deliberate and deadly attacks that were carried out against our country," President Bush said the day after the hijackers turned planes into missiles, "were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war." On cue, by Friday CNN was billing its coverage "America's New War," and Secretary of State Colin Powell was vowing that America would use "all the tools and weapons at our disposal" to fight...
...some queer respect, I took my cue from George W. Bush. For it was Bushs recital of a Biblical verse (from Psalm 23) in his dispassionate address to the nation on the night of the attacks that impressed upon me the necessity of grappling, yet again, with religion and nationality, or, more precisely, religious nationalismnot just that of the attackers but also, and more importantly, that of many of the most outspoken and influential defenders of the United States. It is not insignificant that Bush has spoken more than once since then of a crusade, a violent movement that...
Only 14 years after this gender-based decision, the magazine The Art Amateur would remark, “There is nothing that men do that is not done by women now in Boston.” The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston took this quotation as a cue to laud the woman artist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In its most recent exhibit, “A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston 1870-1940,” the MFA draws from its own collections, as well as private collections to show...
Windows XP is really the first easy-to-use, built-from-scratch operating system for PC users. It narrows the ain't-computing-fun gap with the Macintosh platform. That's because Microsoft took a cue or two from Apple...