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...People use guns to defend themselves hundreds of thousands of times per year,” he said. “Guns have no equal as self-defense tools...
...tempting to say that with her seventh album, World Without Tears, Lucinda Williams is knocking on Bob and Bruce's door. Tempting, but untrue, because for years she has been their equal as a writer of aching lyrics and easy hooks. But owing to the no-poetry rule, and a few other irrational market prejudices, she was branded with that deadliest of commercial adjectives: challenging. Her high-art pedigree--she is the daughter of poet Miller Williams, who wrote Inaugural verse for Bill Clinton in 1997--scared off arena crowds; her blending of country, folk, rock and blues made...
First, the good news: If the war is over in a month, about 1.7 million new jobs will be created over the next year, according to forecasts by Gus Faucher, senior economist at Economy.com These jobs wouldn't quite equal the number that have been lost in the past two years--2 million--but they would be a good start...
Larry, a composer and lyricist best known for his off-Broadway smash success Bat Boy, The Musical, which is returning to Boston for a second time this May, reacted with equal pride—but jokingly disapproved of his brother’s artistic liberties...
...forces move to envelope Baghdad in a vise grip, a second battle for Baghdad rages off-camera, sometimes with equal ferocity: The struggle to determine by whom, and under what authority, Iraq will be governed once the coalition pulls the plug on Saddam Hussein's regime. Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld is reportedly urging President Bush to install a "provisional government" of Iraqi exiles who "share the president's objectives for a free Iraq." The U.S. may not even wait for Saddam's ouster; Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Richard Myers said Thursday that rather than fight street-by-street...