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...variation. One of my favorite songs of all time is ‘Karma Police,’ because it manages to be haunting and depressing yet easy to listen to. The CD was written by Radiohead to show how machines distort people, so it has this sad nuclear fallout feel to it. Every song has a unique character, even though they all have a similar mood. It all has this piercing, haunting metallic sound to it, which is why I like...
...diplomatic fallout from the picture, which featured Clark and Mladic smiling jovially in their swapped hats, was severe. (It’s been rumored that Clark’s gaffe delayed his promotion to four-star general.) In retrospect, the picture appears even more shocking given what transpired nine months later in the Bosnian city of Srebrenica. Over the course of a week, Mladic directed a systematic roundup of the city’s Muslims and organized their transportation to execution sites. The International Committee of the Red Cross estimates that 7,079 Bosnian Muslims were killed in Srebrenica between...
Conservative columnist Bob Novak exposes Wilson's wife as a CIA officer in a piece about fallout from Wilson's op-ed. He writes, "Valerie Plame is an agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior Administration officials told me that his wife suggested sending Wilson to Niger to investigate...
...Friends and Carrie on Sex and the City have returned diamond rings. But while Hollywood finds romantic tension and humor in such scenes, those who have lived through them say the experience entails unrecognized suffering. While it lacks the stigma of divorce, it nonethelss carries more complications and emotional fallout than the standard breakup. Lyn O'Hearn, 26, a travel agent from Lincoln, Neb., says her disengagement left her feeling depressed and guilty. She had dismissed warning signs of trouble as pre-wedding jitters. "When my fiance broke up with me in June, I was in shock." Fear and guilt...
...fallout from Spitzer's assault has been swift. Fund-research firm Morningstar--the 800-lb. gorilla of independent fund analysis--took the unprecedented step of warning investors to avoid the four fund families at the eye of Spitzer's storm--Strong, Bank of America's Nations Funds, Bank One's One Group, and most Janus offerings (except for its Mid Cap Value, Small Cap Value and Risk-Managed Stock funds, which are run by outside managers). "The firms put their own profitability ahead of shareholders'," says Kunal Kapoor, Morningstar's associate director of fund research. "Until we see changes...