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...apocalyptic street hunters; tension winds tight against a sparse arrangement of drum clatter, guitar reverb, and a xylophone that seems to echo from the bottom of a sewer.“We Call Upon the Author” begins a searing second act with a snarling Cave reciting a list of grievances against an ambivalent God. Yet again, the finger of blame points at Cave, who seems to bring down the song’s misery around himself (with bizarre imagery like “myxomatoid kids”); his wandering mind can’t quite convey his intended...
...Harvard mailing list to which I subscribe, an impassioned 28-message e-brawl broke out. The subject was the relevance of the most visible attributes of our new dean—her race and gender—to her appointment...
...Right, you know nothing about her, ergo it’s affirmative action. Why don’t you try engaging on substance instead of crass identity politics?” A second respondent was simply incredulous: “Did that implication really just go over the list? Really...
...enforcement agencies were catching up to Bout. In 2002, the Belgian government charged him with laundering $325 million. In 2005, the same year Nicolas Cage played a character based on Bout in the Hollywood film Lord of War, the U.S. Treasury placed Bout in the Specially Designated Nationals list, an action that threatened to impose economic sanctions against anyone conducting business with Bout. U.S. officials believe Bout is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. A 2007 email that is part of the investigation that lead to Bout's arrest said the sanctions effectively froze about $6 billion of his transactions...
From the beginning of his presidential run, Huckabee was counted out. The list of particulars went on without end: He lacked the money, the connections, the Washington advisors and the endorsements. He was too openly religious. He had a funny last name and crooked teeth, and the fiscal conservatives didn't trust him. His books offered oddly quaint instructions, like "report litter" and "don't swear." He had once supported the release from prison of a rapist, Wayne DuMond, who went on to commit murder. His campaign staff could, for a time, be counted on one hand, then...