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Klein quoted an administration official who referred to the failure of Bush's Iraq policy as "a Mick Jagger moment...You can't always get what you want." Now we will find out if the President recognizes that he has to abandon his six-year Under My Thumb approach to dealing with Congress...
...after the stork arrives, it flies away with your last shred of cool. But help is at hand in the form of Colours Are Brighter, a compilation of 13 original songs[an error occurred while processing this directive] by alternative rock acts put together by Belle and Sebastian's Mick Cooke. Issued on Rough Trade, the label that evolved from the legendary punk-era London record shop, it's specifically for kids ("and grownups too" acknowledges the small print). "Go Go Ninja Dinosaur!" roots Four Tet's electro-tinged refrain on the opening track. From there, the likes of Snow...
...Those close to Clinton say he has similarly ambitious hopes for his Clinton Global Initiative. In its inaugural conference last October in New York, Clinton brought together celebrities, business moguls and world leaders from Mick Jagger and Angelina Jolie to General Electric Chairman Jeff Immelt and Starbucks President Jim Donald to British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. To be invited to the Davos-style gathering, each guest was expected to promise to do something specific within a year in one of the conference subject areas: worldwide poverty, religious conflict, corruption and global warming. It claimed...
This sitcom about a band of down-and-outers planning to burglarize the Rolling Stones' front man used to be called, with Snakes on a Plane directness, Let's Rob Mick Jagger. The folks at ABC changed the title to Let's Rob ..., then to the head-scratching The Knights of Prosperity. At some point, one suspects, they will redub it Please Don't Watch This Sitcom, but don't listen to them. This blue-collar heist comedy is a riot by any name...
...think of Hammer as a cop without a badge. Think of him as a discharged, displaced soldier, perhaps with a case of post-traumatic stress syndrome. As the Mick said about the men who came home from World War II, "They knew what a person's mind could do to him." Hammer's belligerence might seem neolithic to civilians, but to young men who had survived the horror of war, and knew many who didn't, his advance-guard wariness on New York's mean streets was nothing less than a life skill...