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...truck, and a Gilbert Arenas blog post titled "Man, I'm Shooting 4-for-24." (The best lines: "Truthfully, I'm playing like terrible trash right now. I don't want to make an excuse, but the rims are broken in every arena I'm playing in.") At the dawn of a new year in the NBA, you never know which teams will jell, which stars will shine or which broken-down power forwards Isiah will sign to max contracts. That's part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The NBA — Never Bet Against It! | 10/30/2007 | See Source »

Bhutto supporters arrived from as far away as Abbotabad in the country's northeast and Quetta, on the western border with Afghanistan. They arrived in buses and cars, on foot and by donkey cart. As dawn broke on the morning of her arrival, the crowds awoke from the highway medians where they had passed the night in hopes of getting a glimpse of a leader few had seen other than from a television screen. Babur Khan, a 28-year-old employee at the Karachi stock exchange said excitedly, "She will bring employment, she will restore democracy, and she will bring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bloody Welcome for Bhutto | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...most useful in explaining quirky customs and rituals such as “Tripe Night”—the threat of serving tripe instead of turkey at Thanksgiving dinner, the savings to be donated to the poor—and alerting him to the surprise party at dawn when the boarders departed for Christmas vacation. Instinctively, she knew that David Aloian liked to be in control, not the unwitting participant in an unexpected prank...

Author: By Sylvia Mendenhall | Title: Drew at Concord | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

...follow the lyrics’ lead: hence the thunder sounds when Eleanor is talk-singing about thunderstorms on “Ex-Guru,” and the monkey and cow noises in “The Old Hag is Sleeping” to indicate the rooster at dawn. Again, I once would have found this charming and imaginative. But the obscure lyrics rarely coalesce into a coherent narrative and the supporting noises only detract from the rather impressive hard rock guitar of Matthew and the powerful beats of guest drummer Robert D’Amico. Songs like...

Author: By Kimberly E. Gittleson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fiery Furnaces | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

...cause of history or a futile response to it? Rostropovich famously performed an impromptu solo at the Berlin Wall in 1989, but he did not make it fall. He played with searing passion in London in 1968, but the tanks rolled on Prague regardless. Songbirds can't bring the dawn; they can only endure the darkness until it ends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Slava's Shadow | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

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