Word: exactions
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SONGBIRD WILLIE NELSON With seven original scattershot albums since 2003--including one of just reggae covers--Nelson formally entered the doodling phase of his career. A collaboration with fellow profligate Ryan Adams (a mere five albums in three years) would seem like the exact wrong move, but as a producer, Adams brings along his excellent backing band, the Cardinals, and a shrewd instinct for songs that keep Willie focused. The two originals and nine covers--including Gram Parsons' $1000 Wedding and Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah--are so good that Nelson resists the temptation to oversell them and returns...
...Instead, the unrelenting sectarian violence in daily Iraqi life soon turned the trial into a televised sideshow. For those who bothered to watch anymore, the sight of Saddam in court sometimes had the exact opposite effect than officials expected - it evoked nostalgia for a time when, under the tyrant's yoke, Shi'ites and Sunnis were not at each other's throat. Although viewership spiked today, interest in the proceedings will quickly subside again...
...written so many books that she has lost track of the exact number. (It's more than 100.) Her breadth as a writer is legendary-novels, short stories, poetry, reviews, nonfiction. This month Joyce Carol Oates adds a provocative new novel to her lengthy r?sum?: Black Girl/White Girl, the story of two college roommates-and one's mysterious death. Oates, 68, talked with TIME's Andrea Sachs about race relations, writer's block and the joys of running...
Drake said “not a lot” of Harvard student groups that applied for space were rejected, but declined to give an exact number. He added that although fewer groups are participating in this year’s tailgate, it will be more organized...
...international admission and financial aid policies. The admissions department is constantly working on “identifying, recruiting, and enrolling the best students” from all parts of the globe, McGrath Lewis said. Due to office reorganization, McGrath Lewis said that she didn’t have the exact number of applications or matriculation of students from the United Kingdom. Henry J. Dawkins ’10, who attended an independent English secondary school that is privately run, said that the only people who tended to apply to U.S. schools were those who had a direct connection...