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...sings Sade Adu on the titular track from “Soldier of Love,” Sade’s first album since 2000. For an impressively constructed album based on and made for “love,” this line seems more of a curious apology from the band than a testament to love from a wayward lover...
...They are an extremely likable band. Live shows are swaying, drunken, multiracial carousals of mutual infatuation between audience and musicians. Lead singer Jan Curious has a litheness and thinness of girth that would make a Rolling Stone proud. The English-language songs are delirious paeans to fast cars ("Tell Her"), fast girls ("Caroline") and fast times ("Something Special"). And how is it possible to not be won over by a group that declares its chief influence to be "every song we've ever heard"? (See Asia's best bands...
...Americans are still allowed. "Don't ask, don't tell" continues to ruin military careers, and Guantnamo is still open and booming. Unless Obama attacks these issues and leads or drags his Democratic colleagues in Congress into doing the same, his Administration may be seen someday as a curious pause before the Second Reagan...
...Fortunately, Big China Books are not the only option for general readers curious about the P.R.C., since many significant works that take a ground-level view of the country, rather than a bird's-eye one, have also been appearing. I am thinking, for example, of Fast Boat to China (2007). This is a lively account of the human side of Shanghai-based outsourcing by Andrew Ross, who usefully dubs his study a foray into "scholarly reporting" - a term for books that, as he puts it, have "mined the overlap between ethnography and journalism...
...number of quotes by Summers not dreamed up by Farley and Stone in this op-ed is zero. Among the things Summers did say in his talk was that discrimination against women surely takes place in the U.S., but this reality is conveniently ignored by these creators of a curious new literary genre dressed up as commentary...