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...responsible for the assassination. Undoubtedly, this entity would have sought to exploit the Syrian leadership’s vulnerable position by committing an act that would guarantee invigorated international pressure on the country. It is not a coincidence that the relative peace that Lebanon has enjoyed for the last fifteen years has been shattered at the same time that Damascus is facing unprecedented American-led opposition. This opportune time seems ideal for such a strategic attack...
...Fifteen students staged a sit-in at Yale’s Admissions Office yesterday to demand reforms in the college’s financial aid policies, occupying the building for over eight hours until New Haven police officers and university officials shut it down...
TheFacebook’s first summer house was a sublet in suburban Palo Alto, a fifteen-minute drive from world famous venture capital firms like Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins, and walking distance from the Stanford campus, breeding ground of tech legends like Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin...
...built entirely on overt personal satisfaction without any musical foundation. The group makes it very clear as to why they got into rock and roll in the pedophilia-proud lyrics of their anthem “All in the name of”: “She's only fifteen/ She's the reason--the reason that I can't sleep/ You say illegal/ I say legal's never been my scene/ I try like hell but I'm out of control/ All in the name of rock 'n' roll/ For sex and sex I'd sell my soul...
...band can only handle so much boot-tappin’ and gyratin’ in acid-washed jeans before their fans wander on in search of drunker pastures. The second disk is void of any of the songs that gave the Crüe their extended fifteen minutes of fame. Mötley Crüe made its name in mindless driving rock to which one could swig a beer; in trying to highlight their accomplishments of the post-grunge, semi-cleaned-up 90s, they recede into a softening sound and fading tattoos. Where the first half of the album...