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...worth noting, of course, that even had the more dovish Livni been in charge, peace with the Palestinians would not be achieved anytime soon. That's because political divisions on the Palestinian and Arab side are an even bigger mess than the hawkish Netanyahu's hodgepodge coalition of ultranationalist hard-liners like Lieberman and longtime peace negotiators like his Defense Minister, Labor Party leader Barak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Netanyahu Could Make Peace with Syria | 4/3/2009 | See Source »

...infrastructure - its crowded subways, traffic-choked streets, aging water mains - is being pushed past its limits. City planners realize that New York is on track to gain an additional 900,000 people by 2030. If that growth isn't managed properly, the result will be an environmental and economic mess. "New York is growing, and we have to think more effectively," says Rohit Agarwalla, director of the city's Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability. "We can't just build more power plants. We can't just grow on the edges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big (Green) Apple | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...really fun to add that into our original music and some of the rock pieces.”The Bad Plus also experimented with a vocalist, Wendy Lewis, in their most recent album. “It’s part of the jazz tradition to mess with instrumentation,” King says. “So we thought, why don’t we go all the way and get a vocalist?”The trio knew from the first, however, that they needed a very specific kind of vocalist—someone who would accommodate...

Author: By Susie Y. Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bad Plus Adds Diverse Musical Elements to Jazz | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...Wings,” which begins within an a capella canon of whiny female voices saying “D-Day is passed and gone,” never leaves the realm of “irritating” and simply dissolves into an incoherent mess of vocal sound, leaving us to wonder if the introduction of vocals was really such a great idea. Others, such as “Slow With Horns / Run for Your Life” and “Surprise Stefani,” skip the initial, unsettling irritation and open with an already pleasant, natural...

Author: By Victoria J. Benjamin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dan Deacon | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...acts as the stylistic twin to “Nothing to Worry About.” But just when you’re starting to join in on the rollicking angry energy, the song ends, and “Stay This Way” drags the whole mess down into plaintive misdirection as Morén sings “I don’t want to grow up / I don’t want to stay young” over a maddeningly meandering synth flute. “Blue Period Picasso” is narrated from, unsurprisingly, the point...

Author: By Spencer Burke, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Peter Bjorn & John | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

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