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...Bush's prime rhetorical technique. When he drew our attention to a handful of troublesome regimes, he couldn't just call them troublesome regimes; instead they ballooned into an "axis of evil." His hope of stabilizing the Middle East by fostering self-government was not just a geostrategic Hail Mary - it would lead, he said in the stunning capper to his second Inaugural, to "the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." Born into happiness and prosperity and languor, American boomers have long compensated by goosing their language, and their self-image along with...
...range of Radiohead's appeal. Could a politically charged European band get a groove going with Southern fried hippies who worship Phish and the Grateful Dead? The answer came early in the set, as the crowd cheered and danced to "There, There," from the group's last album, Hail to the Thief, and later too, as the sea of listeners lustily sang along to Radiohead classics like "Karma Police" and "Fake Plastic Trees...
...Hail to the Thief, a turbulent, at times angry work released three years after Amnesiac, was greeted as a return to the band's guitar-driven roots and a reconciliation between its intellectual electronic side and its earlier, more guitar-based work. It was really more of a detante - the band's two musical tendencies rallying around a not-so-cryptic political stance. But in the new songs, perhaps because Yorke now has a separate outlet for his more personal yearnings, the fusion of urgency and detachment feels organic, unforced and fertile. Like Bonnaroo, Radiohead is bigger than ever...
...this day Margarita Romero, an artisan who dresses statues of virgins for a Catholic procession held every September, is in charge of getting the statues to Berroteran and her neighbors in charge of defending the community. As she led the ammunition-filled icons to small motorboats, she recited "Hail Mary" prayers out loud. "We don't want war, but we know we need to be prepared," Romero said...
...pleasant day on the water. Fast-forward nine months, and she is helping lead the Kaiser Permanente Dragon Healers' weekly training runs as the team prepares to race in at least three festivals this year. "Our first day back on the water this season was in February, with hail, rain, freezing cold," says Pollonais-Britt. "And 27 people showed up. It was amazing...