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Garland Jeffreys knows this turf firsthand. He is 37 now, but he gives the impression that old scars are still fresh. For him, cutting a record is not just a matter of laying down tracks. It is a process of "exorcising my demons...
...meantime the White House dispatched Philip Habib, a widely respected career diplomat who had retired in 1978, to mediate with the various parties. Habib promptly got a firsthand view of what the argument was all about. Since Beirut Airport was still closed as a result of shellings last month, he was forced to fly to Damascus and drive to Beirut. His route, as it turned out, took him right past the missile installations along the highway. Once in the Lebanese capital, he huddled with Lebanon's President Elias Sarkis before going on to Damascus and Jerusalem for similar discussions...
...unreconstructed rowdy. He works the kind of honky-tonk where the patrons would tear the designer label off an urban cowboy's jeans, and songs like / Keep Gettin' Paid the Same and Dam of My Heart (both on the new album) sound gritty and firsthand, not arm's length, the preferred performing distance of contemporary country gentlemen...
...Descartes and Wittgenstein. But eventually he buries the reader beneath a mound of philosophical jargon. As Kung's arguments become more and more complex, the philosophical debris grows to such heights that one cannot help laughing at serious remarks such as, "Obviously, Kierkegaard did not know Pascal's work firsthand; he quotes him only once, and then indirectly, through Feuerbach." Obviously...
Hugon's concern for the team stems from experience as a swimmer in a division of the Federation Francaise de Natation (FFN), near his home on the French Riviers. Participating in a program designed to integrate the sport with France's long school days, Hugon learned firsthand the rigors Harvard swimmers face in trying to mix serious studying and serious swimming...