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...genre-defying artist known as Danger Mouse has spent much of his career jumping from one successful project to another. He created the brilliant Beatles-Jay-Z Grey Album mashup in 2004, he formed Gnarls Barkley and Dangerdoom, and he's produced albums by artists such as Gorillaz and Beck. But Danger Mouse (whose real name is Brian Burton) is quick to point out that his latest collaboration, with Shins front man James Mercer, isn't a one-time experiment. He and Mercer have formed a fully realized band, Broken Bells, and their first album - also called Broken Bells - comes...
...above all others will help determine its fate, and he is not Barack Obama or Harry Reid or even a member of Congress. In fact, odds are you've never heard of Alan Frumin, the Senate parliamentarian. But when it comes to the complex budgetary procedure known as reconciliation, the filibuster-proof process which Democrats hope to use to make certain fixes to the Senate bill, Frumin is "the defense counsel, he's the prosecution, he's the judge, he's the jury and he's the hangman," says Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, the top Republican...
...problem in using reconciliation is twofold: 1) it's open to amendments and many Republicans Senators, including Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, say they plan on filing hundreds of amendments, potentially gumming up the Senate for months; and 2) under a provision known as the Byrd rule - named after Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia - every provision passed through reconciliation must be deemed relevant to the underlying budget by the parliamentarian...
...things until 1995, when Dove was reinstated. He only lasted until 2001, when he was fired by Trent Lott over his advice on the budget resolution. Lott reinstalled Frumin - making him the only parliamentarian to be appointed by both parties - who then stuck to Dove's recommendations. "I've known Alan very well for a very long time," says Dove, who now teaches at George Washington University and practices law at Patton Boggs. "He's more than up for the job." Frumin, as is tradition for sitting parliamentarians, declined to be interviewed for this story...
...when General Khan heard the tinny, rat-tat-tat music welling up from the crowded lanes of the bazaar, he saw it as a sign that normality was returning to Peshawar. "We killed a lot of them," he says, referring to the militants known as the Tehrik-i-Taliban (TTP) or the Pakistani Taliban who are at war with Islamabad while their Afghan brethren are hiding in these same saw-blade mountains to launch attacks on NATO forces across the border. The bombings are less frequent and the kidnappings, he says, have gone "from 50 a day to zero." Bringing...