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...random walls, and a painting of a jester in a cardboard frame accompanies a piece entitled “Waiting for Signs.” Magnetic poetry covers the refrigerators to foster the unexpected burst of creativity, with recent compositions such as “summer girl shake / frantic light spray / puppy / crush” and “how from the incubate pole / a cold sun shines...
...them from getting anywhere. Roadie and Kyle’s vocals are often lacking as well, clearly straining on high and midrange notes alike. Their occasional feeble attempts at harmony only worsen the effect. Finally, the occasional extended jams (as in “T.V.”) sound frantic and gratuitous, like Phish at their worst...
Though it was not clear at the time, the attempt to build a unified international position on Iraq died that day. Everything that followed--the gnomic reports by Hans Blix, the U.N.'s chief biochemical-weapons inspector; Powell's presentation of new intelligence on Saddam's WMD capabilities; increasingly frantic British efforts to forge a new resolution that might win a majority of the Council--was no more than flowers on the coffin of Resolution 1441. Powell was furious at the Martin Luther King Day ambush. "He had won an internal debate within the Administration...
Lawmakers briefed by Vice President Dick Cheney and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice late last week say that the White House did not rule out the possibility that Saddam was dead or gravely injured. A U.S. intelligence official says that early Thursday morning, electronic intercepts picked up frantic calls for medical assistance from someone at the bombing site, though there was no indication which Iraqi leaders had been hit. Three days after the strike, U.S. strategists still didn't know exactly who had been taken out, but they were certain, says an intelligence official, that "we got somebody...
...shouldn't be surprised at the vehemence of the protests around Asia or that the debate has become as much about Bush's America as Saddam's Iraq. This is the anger of betrayal, fueled in part by the frantic outcry that emerges when one realizes that what he or she has idealized cannot or will not live up to those expectations...