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After a three-year lull, singer Natalie Merchant and her band are back with a strong follow-up to their mediocre Blind Man's Zoo of 1989. Merchant's poetic lyrics and majestic voice are in full display on Eden, and they seem even more thoughtful--and warmer--than before. That effect is enhanced by keyboard and string arrangements and the addition of horns to some of the songs. The two opening tracks--"Noah's Dove" and "These are Days"--along with "Few and Far Between," are the disc's most compelling...
Before long, the Great War received a new name: World War I. The roaring 1920s and the Depression years of the 1930s proved to be merely a lull in the fighting, a prelude to World War II. Largely hidden during that war was an awful truth that called into question progress and the notion of human nature itself. Even now, the Holocaust -- an industry set up for the purpose of slaughtering human beings -- remains incomprehensible...
From Bosnia come daily tales of gut-wrenching savagery, few more appalling than last week's butchery in the capital of Sarajevo. Civilians were lured from their homes by a lull in the fighting to line up for bread and ice cream, when three 82-mm mortar shells smashed into the crowd. At least 25 people were killed and an additional 100 injured. While the brutality may have startled outsiders, Sarajevans were not surprised. Just the night before, shells had slammed into a maternity hospital, killing three newborns...
...game full of bright moments for Harvard. Not only did the attack awaken from its recent lull, but the defense also came alive, fiercely checking opposing sticks with a vengeance...
...home to 70,000 of Karabakh's 200,000 residents, Stepanakert's population has been shrinking as some families send their children to outlying villages. Most of the 50,000 who remain live underground in crowded, dark basements. They emerge, as Babayan did recently, only when there is a lull in the shelling. Adapting to life in wartime, they walk the streets carefully, always trying to place the wall of a building between themselves and the likely trajectory of incoming artillery. "We will live on," said Babayan, whose sister had died the day before from shrapnel wounds. "We are simply...