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...Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz's itinerary in Iraq was designed primarily as a PR exercise, intended to highlight the positive developments supposedly being overlooked by the media. But the men fighting the U.S. occupation from the shadows had a media agenda of their own, systematically spoiling Wolfowitz's PR party by a series of well-timed attacks on key locations and installations. Hours after Wolfowitz left Tikrit, insurgents using a rocket-propelled grenade downed a U.S. Black Hawk helicopter. Worse was to come: On Sunday, they fired a fusillade of rockets at the Baghdad hotel where Wolfowitz was staying...
...tent touches down from the sky in a small town. Mike Tobacco (Cramer) and Debbie Stone (Suzanne Snyder) immediately investigate, discovering the Klowns’ nefarious plot to turn the townspeople into giant balls of cotton candy. Their only hope is local boy Dave Hansen (John Allen Nelson). The highlight, however, is the clowns’ killing spree: you haven’t lived until you’ve seen a clown midget punch off a biker’s head, or a shadow puppet tyrannosaurus rex eat a crowd of children...
...also threw in “confused.” She says that although she spent 15 minutes on it and got really frustrated, all her students could muster was “confu-.” Later that week, in a moment Nguyen calls a “highlight,” her student Tony was banging on a desk during a lesson. When asked why, Tony told Nguyen “I’m confused...
...album’s immediate highlight and cheapest thrill is the lead single, the throbbing “Still In Love Song,” where distorted vocals (strongly reminiscent of The Stills’ current tour partners, Echo and the Bunnymen) drone over a jaunty bass line. At their worst, as on the nearly self-parodying “Animals & Insects,” the band suffer from monotony—without memorable hooks, the songs are unspectacular, and the throbbing, annoyingly persistent bass longs for a change of pace. As another entry in a growing aesthetic of modern...
...various dangers associated with alcohol abuse, as well as clarifying definitions of binge drinking as applied to familiar situations—like the amount of beer consumed during a Beirut game or hard liquor during a 21st birthday celebration. While such a program is more effective when educators can highlight responsible behavior, even if the college is tied to portrayals of irresponsible drinking, at least part of the message will still get through...