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...maturity? No way, says Miller, 24, who proved it a couple of months ago by running his car into a tree. Oh, he wasn't in it. Uh-oh, no one was--Miller started the car, in gear, without getting in. Besides, he says, "I'm skiing really similar to the way I've been skiing for the past five years. I still crash out of races...
...most cited explanations - the first soldiers on the scene in Lamitan didn't have radios. This is not a wealthy nation, of course, but one retired general in Manila points to corrosive mismanagement as the reason soldiers aren't properly equipped, adding, "Corruption is a big factor." Gear often does not get to those who need it as officers distribute equipment to curry favor, rather than vanquish enemies. Salaries are, he says, "shamefully inadequate" - roughly $150 per month for enlisted men, with about a dollar a day for meals...
...matters. Lapalco’s appropriately titled opener “Tiny Spark” greets with random electronica samples from the mid-1980s, but then rolls over into an upbeat, self-confessing rocker that is quintessential road music. Instead of upping the ante, Benson then moves down a gear into “Metarie,” a frankly earnest ballad about the first, halting steps of a burgeoning relationship. Folky guitars, ascending chromatic tones and backing-singer Emma J’s plaintive voice lend the track a haunting, ethereal quality, but for want of a female vocalist...
After a moment’s hesitation, he heads for the driver’s seat. She gulps. He slips the car into gear. The Benz purrs...
Unfortunately for the Crimson (9-8-3, 8-5-2 ECAC), it was stuck in first gear the whole time...