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...musically degenerative ex-boy band star. The Place You’re In, Shepherd’s fourth record, emphasizes garbage rock that sounds more like a NASCAR soundtrack than the inventive blues that enthusiasts desire. The band occasionally sounds like Collective Soul having a bad day or a meek Boston, but mostly just like guys playing repetitive chord changes with amps cranked and metronomes set on allegretto...
...American who truly prospered in these meek and mild Games was Michael Phelps. The eight-medal poster boy swam like a perfect machine, but then so did his Australian rival Ian Thorpe. Both seemed less vexed by their competition than in mutual awe. When they glanced at each other across the pool, their expressions seemed to say, You can do that too? Phelps was impeccably smooth, as were most of the Americans, who won most of the events. The BALCO scandal was supposed to have crippled the U.S. goal of 100 medals, which was met late Saturday night. The medals...
BOOKS: Multitude lays out how the meek can inherit the earth...
...goad London, suggesting the men were special forces. According to Sadegh Ziba Kalam, professor of political science at the University of Tehran, Iran wanted to show "that it is a powerful country in the region that cannot be circumvented and ignored." Tehran has lots of reasons not to appear meek these days. U.S. forces are now deployed on two sides, in Afghanistan and Iraq, and Iran's leaders feel it hasn't been given enough credit for helping the Americans in Afghanistan. It has had recent border disputes with Arab neighbors. The E.U. has just blasted its human-rights record...
...Hyun has earned the adoration of Asian audiences by acting tough. In 2001's blockbuster romantic comedy My Sassy Girl, she outdrank and verbally abused her meek onscreen boyfriend, all (more or less) in the name of love. In person, you don't get many of the withering glares, emasculating insults?and certainly not the Tyson-like uppercut?that Jun displayed on screen. Instead, you meet someone who politely waits for you to order lunch. In real life, it turns out, Jun isn't that sassy...