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Their songs are halfway between napkin-scribblings and classics, running the gauntlet between stodgy remakes and retro-cool from rock’s heyday. On the manic “White Hands,” lead by a frantic bass, Hayes challenged with true rock and roll sneer: “Jesus, when you going to come back?/ Jesus, I dare you to come back.” The highlight of the evening was the swaggering single, “Spread Your Love” which built from its inflated Beatles conceit to a grinding, howling climax. Black leather...
...litter bargain bins and discount bookstores everywhere. Most attempts at capturing the magic of that unique transition from child to man fall short, relying on clichés which grow ever more worn with each use. Childhood becomes a time of pure joy and nostalgia, else it is a gauntlet of foster homes, neglect and other contrivances designed to elicit a sympathetic response...
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon threw down the gauntlet on Sunday following the most devastating suicide bombing of the 18-month intifada. In an escalating war in which neither side has been bold enough to go out on a limb for peace, Sharon vowed to decimate the forces behind the attacks, saying, “We must fight against this terrorism, fight with no compromise, pull up these wild plants by the roots, smash their infrastructure.” Meanwhile, Palestinian Authority President Yassir Arafat remains silent in response to President George W. Bush’s demand that...
...Even getting this far has not been easy. The U.S. and allied forces had run a hellish gauntlet over a boggy road coursing over gully beds and stony plains to this front near Mendzhavar. A mere 20 minutes from the center of Gardez, the surrounding villages belong to the enemy. "Everyone here is al Qaeda," says a nervous Afghan soldier pointing out houses from where a U.S.-Afghan column was ambushed last week. "We aren't safe passing through because we can't say which homes they're in and which ones they aren...
...Uzbekistan. But that country's bureaucracy, which fears an influx of refugees and Islamic radicals, has managed to keep all but a few hundred tons from moving into Afghanistan. Aid that did get across, either from Uzbekistan or from Turkmenistan to the west, had to go through a gauntlet before it helped those who needed it most. Agencies have to pay a "tax" to a military commander around every mountain pass. Pilfering is rife; Alliance soldiers and local aid workers divert much of the food, medicine and blankets to their families or to bazaars. To speed up the deliveries...