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...every seasoned pop band, the Thermals have a few gems to salvage from the wreck. The sloppy, manic “When We Were Alive” shakes with the same bracing fury—noisy riffs that fall like axe blows over gleefully deranged vocals—of earlier releases. “How We Fade” glimpses at those heights as it surges to a close, and in its valleys it remains a passably pretty stab at punk balladry. The album closer, “You Dissolve,” finds the band remembering...
...brilliant challenges to the status quo.The exhibition begins at a turning point in the history of painting, with the shift from wood panels to stretched canvases as the substrate for the painted work. The contrasting pair that opens the exhibition juxtaposes a Titian canvas with an earlier Bellini panel of a similar scene, a virgin surrounded by saints. The smooth surface of the polished wood panel and the carefully hidden brushstrokes give the Bellini its placidly silken, liquid surface, and even its painted and columned frame recalls the Italian High Renaissance; but the rougher surface of the canvas seems...
...religious advocates, led by Catholic health-care organizations, hoped to have some input into the Administration's eventual decision on the HHS rule. They submitted proposals during a 30-day comment period that ended at midnight on Friday. And they were encouraged earlier this week when the director of Obama's Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Joshua DuBois, repeatedly stressed that the White House wanted open communication and feedback from religious leaders...
Indeed, Malta calls that earlier report "disrespectful" and prefers to emphasize that Brazilians are relatively slim compared with their counterparts in the West. "I think Brazilians are still worried about their bodies. When we compare ourselves to the rest of the world, we are still much thinner," she tells TIME. "And remember, this is not just Brazilians that are getting fatter - this is a worldwide phenomenon...
...proving himself to be a big spender. And he, like the rest of Japan, is hoping that spending more on the economic crisis will make it go away. At a press conference Friday afternoon, Aso unveiled $149 billion stimulus package, 50% larger than what Aso ordered up earlier this week and the third stimulus plan he has proposed since he took office last September. The latest package amounts to record spending for the world's second-largest economy - about 3% of GPP - and, if passed by lawmakers, will bring total fiscal spending during the Aso administration to about $268 billion...