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...election actually yielded a mandate for his policies, he is sure to claim one for his style, because he stuck to it against all odds, much advice and the lessons of history. And on that choice at least, the results are in. --With reporting by Mitch Frank/ New York and Douglas Waller/Washington
...open a new freeway through the city center. Now that the floods have been stemmed, the city is spreading beyond the dikes where handsome villas are rising for the new, well-to-do middle classes ... France's Le Corbusier will build a sports stadium, and 88-year-old Frank Lloyd Wright returned enthusiastically from Baghdad last week ready to create an opera house "like nothing in the world" on an island in the Tigris ... Says a senior U.S. diplomat: "We feel Iraq is potentially if not right now the brightest spot in the area. There's hope here to build...
...encouraging their members to shop elsewhere. Fears of a boycott led Mervyn's, a former Target subsidiary, to reverse its own ban last week, but so far Target's 1,313-store chain is standing firm with its bah, humbug. --By Jeffrey Ressner. With reporting by Frank Sikora...
...primer for the uninitiated: the Pixies (Frank Black, a.k.a. Black Francis on guitar and vocals, Kim Deal on bass, Joey Santiago on lead guitar and David Lovering on drums) formed in Boston in 1986, put out five albums of genius pop/punk, influenced essentially every guitar-based band of the ’90s (Kurt Cobain once admitted that “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is just a Pixies rip-off) and gave real meaning to the word “alternative,” then imploded acrimoniously in 1993. Deal rejoined her previous band, the Breeders, Black...
...gets the suspicion that the Pixies just don’t care as much anymore. On the basis of the show, it wouldn’t be unfair to conclude that, as Frank Black has obliquely alluded in recent interviews, the reunion is all about cash. That’s not to say that the show wasn’t enjoyable; the songs themselves haven’t been tarnished with age, and the Pixies are all still competent musicians. They turned in an excellent performance, just not a particularly transcendent...