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...lighted devices around our fair city. Their plan? To forever change our way of life by inducing us to watch a certain television program, evilly titled “Aqua Teen Hunger Force.” The perpetrators of this plot, who—much like Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri—have facial hair, calculatedly placed light boxes with sinister circuits of wires, batteries, duct tape, and a lighted cartoon character in strategic locations throughout the city. The danger posed by these devices is almost too terrible to contemplate: In the alternate universe where al-Qaeda...
...many ways," he says. "It could have been Rudolph Valentino." Nonetheless, the poignant sweetness of her recollections and the faintly acrid aftertaste of his own uneasy detachment flavored Simon's adolescence. As he rose during adulthood from deprivation to celebrity, creating hit TV shows, then dozens of gag-laden Broadway shows and jauntily comic movies, he thought from time to time of writing candidly about his mother and even about that specific situation, with its blend of childish veneration and Oedipal yearning. But such memories seemed too personal to be brought out in public, too complex, above all too risky?...
...country of Lincoln, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall and, let us not forget, G.I. Joe of World War II is now accused of torture, ignoring human rights and perverting the truth. Bush may have toppled Saddam Hussein, but he also pushed the U.S. off its pedestal. Meanwhile Osama bin Laden remains at large. Bush would have done well to heed Lincoln's famous words: "You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can never fool all of the people all of the time." Puck Schotborgh The Hague...
...succumb, I discover that Mika's opening line of the first song and single, Grace Kelly, echoes my dilemma. "Do I attract you?/ Do I repulse you with my queasy smile?" he intones. That remained to be seen, but what follows is an album brimming with grandiose, infectious, hook-laden pop. A sweep through the spectrum from '70s melodies and disco brought up to date with full orchestration, kids' choirs and gymnastic vocals. On Grace Kelly he nods to his Freddie Mercury singing style: "So I try a little Freddie/ I've gone identity mad." He also tries a little...
...planned strike comes just two days ahead of a key international fundraising conference in Paris in which the Lebanese government hopes to raise billions of dollars to help revive the debt-laden economy and push through a program of economic reforms. Prime Minister Fouad Siniora has urged all Lebanese to go to work Tuesday as normal, and accused the opposition of attempting to sabotage the donor conference, known as Paris...