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...Great Barrier Reef, not to mention tediously unedited recollections of meals eaten on Brazilian beaches or at Bangkok street stalls. When several paragraphs about transport hassles and hotel mix-ups are tacked on, you start to realize that whatever the postcard's failings, it at least had the merit of brevity...
...tracks like “So Says I” and “Turn a Square,” the Shins use electric and acoustic guitar, drums and sometimes keyboard in classic pop rhythms and catchy hooks which bring merit to the Beach Boys comparisons. Though this certainly shows the band is capable of stylistic evolution, it’s the more soothing tracks which showcase not only the best musical moments on the album, but lyrical development as well...
...doing a little Rush research, I decided to buy his book, The Way Things Ought to Be. In a cursory perusal—and I stress “cursory” because, though there may be some merit in reading such literary wit as “The poor in this country are the biggest piglets at the mother pig and her nipples,” I was unable to find it—I happened upon “Limbaugh’s Lexicon,” where he unsuccessfully attempts a humorous spin of his hateful dogma...
...business setting rather than exclusively in government. What's more, Public Service Minister Jean-Paul Delevoye has proposed measures to make it easier for the state to hire bureaucrats from the private sector. Next year, he announced, the government will begin a plan to pay bureaucrats partly on merit rather than seniority alone. Getting there will require intensive discussions with unions entrenched in the French public service - and opposed to change...
...Staff’s condemnation of Israel’s recent missile strike against an alleged terrorist camp in Syria is egregiously oversimplified (Editorial, “Nations Are Not Terrorists,” Oct. 15). While arguing with merit against the logic of Israel’s attack, The Staff’s characterization of the conflict between Israel and Syria is woefully lacking in basic history...