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...album’s lo-fi AM radio feel is nothing new to Beck, who showed his folk muscle previously on 1994’s One Foot in the Grave and on 1997’s more eclectic Mutations, which up until now were his quietest and most beautiful records. But where the folky Beck of yore lamented empty mining towns, the new Beck wails over empty Kleenex boxes. “You got to drive all night / just to feel like you’re ok,” he sings, with the wrinkled voice and lyrics...
...tries to sell the world on a new war against Iraq, former President George H.W. Bush this summer made a little-noticed trip to relive his combat memories of an earlier, less controversial conflict. A few weeks ago, Bush paid a visit to the watery grave of his Avenger bomber, downed by ground fire after a run on a radio tower on the South Pacific island of Chichi-jima in 1944. The President's trip to Iwo Jima's tiny sister island was stimulated by author James Bradley (Flags of Our Fathers), who accompanied him. "I was trying to relive...
...harsher tactics to bring Megawati into line. Washington is threatening to officially classify JI as a foreign terrorist organization, as well as possibly Ba'asyir himself as a terrorist. Failure by Indonesia to act against JI or Ba'asyir, U.S. officials say, could then precipitate a series of grave economic sanctions such as refusing aid and voting against financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund...
...dangerous precedent that threatens world peace and security.” French Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy deemed the strike “unacceptable,” and the British Foreign Office labeled it “an unprovoked attack” that constituted “a grave breach of international law which could have the most serious consequences.” The United Nations Security Council—in a unanimous 15-to-0 vote—passed a resolution strongly criticizing the Israeli attack, after U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim reproached it as a “clear...
...civilization once again confronts Hussein’s voracious appetite for weapons of mass murder, the protestations of those opposed to a pre-emptive strike sound all too familiar. Despite the mountains of evidence indicting the Iraqi government as a grave threat to American and world security—including links to terrorists such as the now-deceased Abu Nidal and terror groups such as al Qaeda, known stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons, reports from Iraq’s former bomb-maker that its scientists could be months away from producing a nuclear weapon, Hussein’s gassing...