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...will probably alternately mystify and delight American listeners who may have no idea what precisely a “geezer” is, it is only half the attraction. Garage music, an offshoot of techno and trance, has always seemed like a half-formed genre, a minor detour in a genre best-listened to on a crowded, chemically-enhanced dancefloor. Original Pirate Material demonstrates conclusively why this is no longer the case. In the awakening world of British hip hop, The Streets may be the first truly English rapper and he has commandeered his own sound to go with...
...brief detour on his way back to Lionel, Blickstead stops first at Claverly in a bid to extend the evening, as he was told by another Mather partygoer that some “hot Asians in Clav would be throwing down.” After a brief inspection, there appears to be no party and no “hot Asians,” so on to Lionel he goes...
...leave-it offer to the UN. And diplomats report getting mixed messages on that question from the Bush administration, with the State Department reportedly more inclined to negotiate a consensus in the Security Council in the coming weeks, while more hawkish elements hope to truncate the diplomatic detour on the road to a war they see as inevitable...
...backseat of the family car, Chihiro, 10, thinks her life's job is to parry her parents' every wish. On a detour, the three discover what Dad calls "an abandoned theme park." He and his wife stop at a desolate restaurant to scarf down some food, while Chihiro goes wandering in the park. When she returns, she is shocked to find her parents have turned into swine. (We later learn they were bewitched because "they ate like pigs"; at this theme park, you are how you eat.) The frightened Chihiro realizes she is a prisoner in a sort of ghost...
...President Bush continues to push back against Senate versions of HSD legislation because none offer him the ability to hire and fire 170,000 departmental employees at will. He insists this is the only way for efficient and proactive governance - hinting broadly that any detour from this blueprint amounts to a tacit surrender to terrorism. Meanwhile, Democrats - and representatives for the roughly 600,000 civilian Defense Department employees who currently work under existing union labor rules, and whose status could be affected by any changes leveled at new HSD staff - are fighting him tooth and nail...