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...Third Eye Blind and Dashboard Confessional and the New England pseudo-funk of college jam bands such as Dispatch and O.A.R., Guster claim to present a more definitive sound with their latest offering, despite the admittedly unoriginal title of “Satellite.”“Elliott Smith has a ‘Satellite,’” says Rosenworcel. “Dave Matthews has a ‘Satellite.’ Lou Reed has a ‘Satellite.’ We thought about that. We tried to change the lyric...
...long tradition of moping whiners who whispered their way to the top of the alternative charts. It’s not a bad move, ripping off the acoustic plinkings of bygone modern folk singers. But let’s not forget: Jeff Buckley drowned, Nick Drake overdosed, and Elliott Smith was found stabbed in the chest. Sure their records were lovely—raw, and eerie. They may have made heaps of money: but then they croaked. They died untimely deaths and now their songs can be heard behind the suicide sequences of movies like “The Royal...
...volatile post-Katrina political context. They fear that New Orleans could be viewed as not taking corruption seriosuly. "The national perception of this - 'How did they reelect a guy with $90,000 in his freezer' - is not what I'd consider the truth," says demographer and political analyst Elliott Stonecipher. "This is far more complex. And I would ask the people of this country, especially those that are in a position to make a difference in New Orleans and Louisiana, to wait until this whole thing runs its course...
...Baker. The Iraq Study Group, which he chairs with Lee Hamilton, plans to recommend a process along these lines, and his associates say that Baker would be willing to help implement it as a special envoy if the President offers him enough authority. That might be resisted by Elliott Abrams, the National Security Council staffer who coordinates Middle East policy, and Baker would not accept the job unless this is resolved. But Condoleezza Rice, who has pushed for a comprehensive diplomatic approach to the region, might be supportive, even enthusiastic. She knows that the Administration needs to salvage a foreign...
...first suspected Russian spy nabbed in Canada in a decade is stirring memories of cold war espionage in North America. The alleged Russian agent, known only as Paul William Hampel - the name on his bogus Canadian passport - was arrested Nov. 14 at Montreal's Pierre Elliott Trudeau airport under a national security certificate signed only five days earlier by two senior Cabinet ministers in charge of public safety and immigration...