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...blossom finally opens its petals to the sky. On the third anniversary of his accident, his mother, Marie Humbert, sat beside his hospital bed as she always had. Then she injected him with a cocktail of barbiturates. "I did it," she told a doctor, according to the French newspaper Libération. But she hadn't done it. The dose left Vincent in a coma, but failed to kill him. Within hours, the police had arrested her, and doctors had hooked her son up to artificial life support. A three-year nightmare had become darker still...
...details of the new constitution must be hammered out and the E.U.'s tattered relations with the United States need patching up. Is Berlusconi - who has a self-confessed "major superiority complex" - the man to get the job done? Diplomats worry that his headstrong style and taste for ad-lib ("We must be aware of the superiority of [Western] civilization" he said after 9/11) will kick up dust. And some influential academics even question whether, thanks to Berlusconi, Italy itself would qualify for E.U. membership if it were applying today. The E.U. requirement that a candidate country have a free...
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While Stephen Malkmus’s self-titled solo debut may have frightened fans into thinking he had become sedate in his middle age, Pig Lib is a welcome return to form. The new full-length from the former Pavement frontman assures listeners that Malkmus is still the fractured slacker god that made Pavement’s 1992 Slanted And Enchanted the Nevermind for a different Generation...
Album opener “Water and a Seat” is a case in point, with swaggering choruses that lag slightly behind the bassline, sounding convincingly and beautifully half-assed. Crazed vocals come from every angle on Pig Lib. In this, it represents a return to the frenetic style that has been missing since Brighten The Corners...