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...YouTube classics. How did this musical career begin? I did an album 40 years ago that was a mixed success, both creatively and critically. But out of it came a concept of how to do songs and how to make the poetry of the lyrics resonate, as a nonsinger. Instead of singing, holding the note, you can use the rhythm of the words to indicate the emotions - whether it's Sarah Palin's meanderings or Shakespeare. Well-written words are music...
...Instead, she got an invitation to join the "official" Breakfast Club, and a form letter signed by the famous director. "I was like, 'Um, excuse me? A form letter?'" Byrne Fields had just confessed her secrets and he didn't have the decency to respond. So she wrote him again and complained. (Read "John Hughes, R.I.P...
...express hope for American efforts in ongoing quagmires. Gelb and McChrystal understand that wars in places like Afghanistan and Vietnam - no matter how expertly executed - can't be won unless local people have a true stake in the operations. McChrystal's new fighting strategy - to separate and protect instead of kill, to understand motivations rather than employing brute force, to supplement instead of micromanaging conditions for success - is a step in the right direction. I'm reminded of something I learned in philosophy class at university: one can't always solve intangible problems with tangible solutions. Let's pray...
...This isn't baloney, but it is hardly the whole story - as you would discover if, instead of being mesmerized by the sight of Pudong, you were to turn around and look at the solid, early 20th century buildings of the Bund, just behind you. Modernity did not come to China because Deng Xiaoping said it should. As Rana Mitter of Oxford University argues, there had been modernizing streams in Chinese society long before 1978, and had some of them taken a different course, our view of what China represents for the future would be unrecognizable from the standard text...
...Marie Le Pen was runner-up in the 2002 French presidential elections. So in June the party might have expected to harness the perfect storm of rising unemployment, economic insecurity and the racial tensions that have disfigured French society to sail to a historic victory in the European elections. Instead, the FN's share of the vote tumbled, reducing its tally of seats from seven in 2004 to three. "Times of unhappiness tend to favor extremist parties," says Dominique Reynié, director of Paris-based think tank Foundation for Political Innovation. "This time people judged the crisis as sufficiently grave...