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Turner's voice is dry and laconic, and he seldom strays from his middle range, but flourishes would only distract from some of the best lyrics ever written by someone who still lives with his parents. On the punk hurricane I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor, he yelps, "Oh, there ain't no love, no, Montagues or Capulets/ Just banging tunes in DJ sets and/ Dirty dance floors and dreams of naughtiness," while the song title You Probably Couldn't See for the Lights but You Were Staring Straight at Me gets a laugh on its own. Turner...
...restaurant, said the driver was an employee of Ultimate Valet. “They’re very good,” Deibel said of the company. “They’ll take care of all damages.” Scherer said the crash would not distract him from his studies. “I guess we’ll have to go to Lamont,” he said. —Staff writer Sam Teller can be reached at steller@fas.harvard.edu...
...back to the wall, Ahmedinajad resorted to the tactic favored by cornered politicians everywhere: distract attention from yourself by pointing to a bogeyman. In Iran (and other Middle Eastern countries) the most convenient Bad Guys are (a) Israel and (b) the West. Hence Ahmedinajad's much-publicized remarks about wanting to wipe Israel off the map. But by all accounts that was not enough to draw off his domestic rivals...
...Capitol Hill?announced he would resign as House majority leader. "I have always acted in an ethical manner within the rules of our body and the laws of our land," DeLay wrote in a letter to his G.O.P. colleagues, but added, "I cannot allow our adversaries to divide and distract our attention." Because of his tightfisted regime that rewarded loyalists and punished detractors, his departure is sure to set off not just a fight for his old job but also some ugly score settling. No wonder House Speaker Dennis Hastert canceled a trip to Asia he had planned for this...
Orman, who has neither a husband nor children to distract her, takes single- mindedness to an almost unimaginable extreme. "When I'm on a plane on the way to a speaking engagement, you cannot talk to me about another project. All I'm doing is thinking about that speech. That way, when I get there, everything is very clear." On a recent 14-day world tour, she says, she didn't pick up a single e-mail or voice message: "Then, bam, it was done, and now that I'm back, I have picked up with what I need...