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...gave up much of his commercial clout. The rhythmic complexities of his songs wove eerie aural patterns through which lyrics chased each other like phantoms from a surrealist serial. The music was simultaneously challenging and forbidding, and Gabriel was typed unfairly as an elitist working in a populist form. Biko began breaking this image down, and the So album has put it to rest forever. The process has received no little help from the raucous Sledgehammer video, which shows Gabriel in novel, self-mocking form, acting like a live-action cartoon surrounded by some nicely berserk animation. "I was lying...
...Nations, international cooperation and the general status of international government. It was a sharply critical speech, in which he voiced disapproval for what he considered a self-interested approach to international diplomacy. He advocated greater multilateralism on issues ranging from the environment and security to monetary policy, in the form of a more cooperative and powerful international government. “That government neither exists now, nor is it likely in my lifetime,” said Volcker. Given recent events in the financial markets and the subprime lending crisis, some in the audience wanted to hear Volcker?...
...penalties, the team has only given up one power-play goal, good for a .958 penalty-kill percentage.TWO-MINUTE MINORSSophomore defenseman Jack Christian added to his team-leading scoring total with his third goal of the season Friday against Rensselaer. Two of his scores have come in the form of empty-netters…On Saturday night, co-captain Mike Taylor, freshman defender Chris Huxley, and senior forward Tyler Magura each recorded their first goals of the season. Huxley’s score, a slapshot from the point that beat Union goalie Corey Milan 9:45 into the game...
...women stand out more than the Khieu sisters. Daughters of a judge and among the country's first female intellectuals, Ponnary and Thirith were sent to study in Paris in the 1950s where they met and later married two other Cambodian students - creating a foursome that went on to form the nucleus of one of the world's most brutal regimes. The elder Khieu sister, Ponnary, married Pol Pot, leader of the fanatical Khmer Rouge movement which fought its way to bloody victory in Cambodia in 1975 and then established a regime under which an estimated 1.7 million people died...
...While H5N1 is difficult for humans to catch, experts fear it could mutate into a form that spreads easily among people, sparking a deadly flu pandemic. Microbiologist Hugh Pennington of the University of Aberdeen said the latest outbreak is part of a "steady creep westward" by the strain from its original hothouse of Southeast Asia...