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...Broken Drum” genuinely wistful and anguished, if a bit too long and slow. Anticon post-hoppers Subtle take the blues-horror of “Farewell Ride” into the urban jungle, and are smart enough to add some new vocals, in the most drastic remix strategy on the album. Homelife gets an honorable mention for having the balls to turn the guitar-crunch of “E-Pro” into a new-wave hoedown, which is fun, if not terribly moving.Besides these peaks, the remixes are pretty much watered-down rehashes of the originals...
...Matory said he does not expect King immediately to push hard for a drastic changes to the Corporation’s course. But, he said, “I hope that she reverses the Corporation’s recent history of very bad decision making...
...obfuscating” the difference between “outright independence” and “sovereignty” and “pray[ing] for continued disarray in federal politics.” Although Boisclair’s arrival may not make a drastic difference in the direction of his province, Morck said he does believe it reflects a difference between the sensibilities of Americans and Canadians. “Canadians probably are more tolerant, at least in some ways. Canada has different religious traditions. Most critically, [it] has no ‘South?...
...only within the U.S. and to U.S. citizens or if it also applied to aliens abroad. According to Pearlstein, a 2004 Supreme Court ruling extended due process at the very least to the detainees of Guantanamo Bay. Berenson’s final point was to emphasize the idea that drastic times call for drastic measures. “The chance that these fanatics will get these nuclear weapons and use them is not small.” But Heymann warned against this attitude. “It is a fundamental mistake to think that the solution is to throw civil...
...bird-flu pandemic could be avoided if we stopped raising poultry for human consumption. Chickens could still be preserved for egg production through breeding in controlled laboratories. That would be a drastic step, but it is necessary for disease prevention. If governments do not wish to do that, they should concentrate the slaughter of poultry in a few (very few) regional slaughterhouses to reduce contact between chickens and humans. The time...