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...album, “Show Your Bones,” due out this March, will sound more like a dull White Stripes imitation than the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ searing previous work. Where on their debut album, their sound was packed full of edge, passion, and finger-in-the-socket guitar innovation, the new sound of the band, or at least what can be gleaned from their latest track, is comparatively conservative. The guitars are still distorted and the drums still heavy-hitting, but it seems that they have turned the volume down from eleven to about seven...
...Islam’s greatest prophet with terrorism. Saddled not only with this disturbing implication but also with the weight of violent protest, these cartoons do less to encourage substantive debate on the conflict between free speech and sensitivity than it does to inspire knee-jerk reactions and finger pointing on all sides. And considering that the purpose of the Salient’s back page is almost always to incite controversy, the latter outcome was clearly among the intended purposes of the cartoons’ republication...
...that doesn't spare women some awkward moments. "Even when I take off my helmet, the Iraqi women don't believe I'm a female," says Sergeant Elizabeth Ricci, 20. "They'll come up and tug my hair." And Iraqi men? "One man saw a ring on my finger and asked who I was married to," she recalls. Joking around, Ricci pointed to a male soldier beside her. "Next thing, the Iraqi opens his wallet and is over there trying to buy me," she says...
...Everybody’s aware of it, and we’ve talked about it a lot…it’s hard to put a finger on it, in terms of how to start the game,” coach Frank Sullivan said. “Tonight Brown took us by surprise, because the game was all zone [defense] when we played them last time. We thought we would see zone, [but] we saw an aggressive...
...Soon after the charges were filed against McCormack, there was no shortage of finger-pointing between the archdiocese and police and prosecutors over who it was that actually dropped the ball. The original allegations were first made to the police, which ended up choosing not to press charges at the time, according to the Archdiocese. And when the church did ultimately talk directly to the boy's lawyer, they couldn't independently confirm the accusations against McCormack, who was allowed to stay on as pastor at the church and basketball coach in the parish school...