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...twist in your side"; "I stand with the sons of Cain") a welcome grounding in earthly delights. "Their show is the best around," remarks an appreciative T Bone Burnett, a guitar player and record producer (Elvis Costello, the BoDeans) of no mean skill. "U2 is what church should be." Lest such praise become a little burdensome, Larry Mullen keeps this reflection handy: "At the end of the day, it's just rock 'n' roll...
...Lest anyone get the impression that Egypt will actually hold a free and fair election, candidates like Nour point out how the system is stacked against them. Mubarak's National Democratic Party machine ensured that government patronage workers get to the polls, while the state-controlled media has heavily favored the incumbent's campaign. The Mubarak-controlled parliament only amended the constitution four months ago, giving opposition parties, weakened by decades of one-party rule, little time to attract and mobilize supporters. Even if they had more time, Mubarak refused to allow any new voters to register, effectively shutting...
Wilson shows a sensitive, but not sentimental, side on the winning ballad I Don't Feel Like Loving You Today and covers the Billie Holiday classic Good Morning Heartache in old-fashioned one-mike, one-take style. Lest anyone think she's getting classy, the title track is about being very drunk, hitting on the wrong guy and getting a tooth knocked out when "a big ole girl walked outta the blue/ 10 ft. 2 with a bad attitude." (The video features Kid Rock, the poet laureate of sloshed hookups.) "I'll never run from being trashy," says Wilson...
Having besought Judge Raulston to quash the indictment brought against Scopes lest it ignite a conflagration of bigotry in the land, and because the act under which it was brought was unconstitutional (TIME, July 20), Lawyer Darrow, shambling, leonin counsel for the defense, next besought His Honor to dispense with, as being prejudicial, the long prayers (by visiting and local Fundamentalist clerics) with which the sessions were being opened. Hot words from the prosecution. Hotter words. In the course of this debate, Attorney General A. T. Stewart snapped at defense-counsel Arthur Garneld Hays: "Willyoupleasekeepyourmouthshut...
...pleas from Hiroshima, finally agreed to permit special national subsidies to badly damaged cities as long as they had a reasonable reconstruction plan. Hiroshima International University planning professor Norioki Ishimaru says parliamentarians from Hiroshima were smart enough to know that their request could not come "with an accusing tone," lest they be turned down by General Douglas MacArthur's occupation headquarters in Tokyo...