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...Some Aboriginal people want the site opened, because tourism would create much-needed jobs for youths. Others want it reburied, with a replica for visitors. While a management plan is devised, Webb worries about erosion: harsh winds are already starting to damage the trackways. For now, simpler measures are being used. A group of Aboriginal women sit filling dozens of knee-high stockings with hot sand. Barefoot, they then move carefully over the dazzlingly white claypan, its surface cracked like china and scattered with cinnamon-colored sand, placing a stocking on each print to shield it from the weather...
...propels toward the murderously insistent refrain, “blood runs through your veins, that’s where our similarity ends.” Later, in “Fingers in the Factories,” feedback-laden guitars charge along a simple, violent drumbeat, running together through harsh lyrics (think “dark satanic mills”) then crashing into a pounding chorus. As the album continues, however, the limited vocal range and thin instrumental palette leaves Editors sounding repetitive. Without the energy of “Munich,” dark and depressing songs like...
...Vendetta,” based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore, was adapted for the screen by the notorious Wachowski brothers of “The Matrix” fame. The film is set in an Orwellian future, replete with governmental conspiracies, constant surveillance, and a harsh crackdown on political dissent. Portman compellingly plays Evey Hammond, the film’s protagonist alongside “The Matrix”’s Hugo Weaving as the masked liberator...
...Israel panics now, and lets public opinion shift to the right, Benjamin Netanyahu will rise to power. The only real hawk in the election, Netanyahu promises to be harsh on terrorism—he will behave like a bull in a china shop. Wandering between the shelves with good intentions and no real desire to cause harm, he will shatter the little china figures into pieces and lead us to disaster. Israel will pay the price for panicking; as during Netanyahu’s previous term in office, buses will be blowing up in the center of Tel Aviv. Four...
...Harvard softball team may seem to have a lot working against it—the departure of three non-seniors, the harsh New England weather, and a schedule that includes only five homestands, only two of which are Ivy contests. But Crimson coach Jenny Allard isn’t worried. Her advice?“Deal with it—make it a non-issue.” The departed players added significant depth to the Harvard bench last season. One of last year’s captains, Kerry Flaherty, had been sidelined due to illness...