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...Eyed Mender,” divided listeners with its tinkling harp, surreal lyrics, and, above all, Newsom’s lilting, often childlike, voice. “Ys,” her sophomore effort, only accentuates her most challenging qualities—and in doing so achieves perfection. A mere five songs in length, “Ys” nonetheless stretches to almost an hour. Each song becomes a fairy tale, allowing Newsom to experiment with words in a way her debut album did not. Proving herself a master storyteller, Newsom’s fantastical, erudite vocabulary and haunting...
...quickly. In the ensuing fragmentation, everything from ambient drone to hip-hop anthems enter into play.While “Gears of War” itself is hardly a masterpiece of subtlety—most of the game still revolves around shooting huge guns at bad guys—the mere fact that a company with Microsoft’s clout is acknowledging the emotional and aural impact of games with its marketing approach is significant. Yet again, money has followed innovation, and a maturing medium has devised a way to position itself as a solution to needs that gamers weren?...
...Oklahoma-Oklahoma State game last year—a mere drop in the bucket of in-state rivalries—a fan brought a 55-inch plasma screen TV and his own generator to a field outside the stadium, where he began a simulated OU-OSU game on his Xbox...
Princeton sunk to a memorable low on Dec. 14 of last season, when that strategy produced a mere 21 points in a home loss to Monmouth, but coach Joe Scott rallied the troops to a 10-4 league record and wins in four of their last five, culminating in a victory over Penn...
...classification that denies it some protections afforded to fully fledged members. To complicate matters, the U.S., the country's largest export market, has yet to legally recognize Vietnam's WTO membership. Although passage of the necessary legislation that would grant "permanent normal trade status" to Vietnam is usually a mere formality, it could get held up in Congress by lawmakers seeking to protect textile manufacturers in their home states, or by politicians wanting to punish Vietnam for its poor human-rights record. As a result, the country could find itself in the unusual position of joining the WTO but having...