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...formula with a little screaming and a little more of the Modest Mouse energy we’ve come to expect, but this excitement is toned down again by “The Air,” the aforementioned “trippy re-mix” by Deck that takes the listener on a brief instrumental journey without leaving a lasting impression. The final three tracks, “So Much Beauty in Dirt,” “Here It Comes” and “I Came As a Rat (Long Walk Off a Short...
...Western priority, right now, is clearly to muster all hands on deck for the fight against Bin Laden and his cohorts, no matter how dirty some of those hands may be. And some short-term political prices will have to be paid. Musharraf, for example, will considerably strengthen his grip on power in Pakistan by helping the U.S. - if he can survive the domestic backlash. U.S. sanctions against his government have been lifted, and he can expect billions of dollars of aid and credit as well as plenty of diplomatic favors. All for helping take down a Taliban regime Pakistan...
...contrast, the notion of Bush's conceding never comes up. Counting votes is seen as tantamount to anarchy. Citizens as corrupt and dexterous as Las Vegas dealers peeling from the bottom of the deck will steal the election. Never mind that manual recounts are routine and that Bush himself is asking for one in New Mexico. Courts such as that of Judge Sauls are praised, despite his refusal to examine the ballots and his applying the wrong legal standard for a recount: evidence that a different outcome was probable rather than merely placing "in doubt the result of the election...
...from Montenegro in 1969. Most days, he surveyed the surroundings from indoors, operating a remote cleaning machine from the rooftop; but the windows on the 107th floor could not accommodate the machine, and he would attend to them manually, suspended from a harness. Camaj, 60, was on the observation deck on the 107th floor in 1993 when a bomb hit the building. It took him 2 1/2 hours to descend by stair, his mouth covered with one of his damp sponges, his doffed shirt covering the mouth of a pregnant woman he escorted down. He was back at work...
Kayaking back to our boat, we sailed until sunset, dropped anchor in a secluded cove and stretched out on deck to watch meteors flash across the night sky. Out in the bay, lights from squid fishers bobbed on the horizon like fallen stars. Behind us, moonlit rock giants towered over the still waters and silver beaches in their timeless repose. In the dark silence, Ha Long Bay was holding onto its beauty...