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Pacific Northwest indie label Sub Pop has let Band of Horses out of the stable a second time, but something’s been lost since the group’s first...
...album, “Widow City,” the brother-sister duo of Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger continue their brand of bluesy, loosely constructed indie, going to town with the various instruments Matthew has managed to find (this includes a Chamberlin). According to the website of their new label, Thrill Jockey, the lyrics were inspired by a combination of ads from the back of early seventies design magazines, the cultural pages of local alternative lifestyle newspapers, and the Baccalieri children’s use of a Ouija board in season four of the “Sopranos...
...degree, and over 50 percent of Chinese and Pakistani do. The counter story, however, is one we must also keep in mind; among Cambodians, Hmong and Laotians, only 8 or 9 percent graduate college—in fact, only about half graduate high school .Thus the label of Asian-American, and particularly of the “model minority” Asian American, denies acknowledgement to the many subgroups that desperately need help. Given the inequality between groups, statistics like the 44 percent of the Asian population holding a bachelor’s degree (compared to 26 percent...
...They themselves are terrorists.' STATEMENT, signed by 215 members of Iran's parliament, condemning the U.S. Army and the CIA over the Iraq war, in response to calls by U.S. politicians to label Iran's Revolutionary Guards a terrorist organization...
...clear that Breaux was out of the race, Boasso switched his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat, and he has spent the ensuing weeks burnishing his regular-guy image. Public service commissioner and former state senator Foster Campbell is the more traditional Louisiana Democrat, proud to wear the populist label. But he's little known outside his North Louisiana stronghold, where Jindal's appeals to Christian conservatives have cut into Campbell's natural base. Rounding out the field of major candidates is New Orleans businessman John Georges, who is running as an Independent...