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...lighter note, the council also moved last night to hand out donut munchkins this morning outside the Science Center...
Since I’m working on a trilogy, you could compare it to Dante’s Divine Comedy. Tea is the Inferno, filled with deaths and burials and dark subjects. Lunch is a little bit lighter but rather annoying; it’s the Purgatorio. Cocktails is my Paradiso. It has glamor and divinity, with poems based on movies and the Gospels, among other things...
...World Records. Fleming then took the stage once more with Strauss’ “Ruhe, Meine Seele,” in which she moved from anger to wounded vulnerablity without losing the richness of her voice. “Schlkechtes Wetter” was a much lighter, playful piece which gave teasing glimpses of the true power of Fleming’s voice. After a calm “Lelse Lieder,” Fleming gave her voice full reign in “Cacilie,” holding an extraordinary final note...
...Alliance and any expanded U.S. troop presence, but also to ratchet up the air war. To reach the battle zone right now, fighter planes have to fly over Pakistan from carriers in the Arabian sea - a distance that limits them to a single sortie each day and with a lighter bomb load necessitated by the heavier fuel load. Basing the same fighters at bases around Mazar would allow them to fly three sorties a day and carry a heavier payload to the Taliban frontlines. And the psychological impact of the U.S. basing its war inside Afghanistan may help focus...
...Antiterrorist officials say the typical inducements to sing don?t work with fundamentalists well-versed in their rights under Western legal systems. "With the Mafia, it was usually enough to offer them a lighter sentence or a bit of money," says an Italian judge. "This is a different phenomenon. But it?s still early. We have to give it time. You have to isolate them from their network." Others remain less optimistic. "Unfortunately, I?ve never seen a turncoat among Islamist militants," says an experienced European interrogator. "A change of heart could be transitory. People we?ve considered ?defectors? from...