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Although those responsible are not talking, theprice of each Yearbook this May could be severaldollars higher as a result of the misspent funds,which allegedly went toward phone calls to Koreaand founding a failed female final club...
...about smoking. Today the habit is excoriated -- antitobacconists depict Joe Camel as a schoolyard drug pusher -- and publicly survives only as a vestige of James Dean rebelliousness. Denis Leary's very funny pro-smoking rants are essentially ironic; taken seriously, they would come across as nostalgia for a life misspent. In the recent film Reality Bites, the one hint of Generation X bravado is that all the hipsters smoke and nobody cares...
...also said government aid following the riots has been misspent...
...warned that allowing Africa to fall apart could lead to a population surge toward Europe and the U.S. Perhaps. On the other hand, neglecting Africa carries no immediate, urgent threat to the rest of the world. Black Africa has no nuclear powers. Why pour in more money to be misspent or rerouted to private Swiss accounts...
...voice, after four decades of late nights and one-nights, has the moral authority of a man who's found mellow wisdom on hard roads. He tells us, in The Hank Williams Syndrome Is Dead, that it's better to trust an artist's songs than to imitate his misspent life. In Didn't We Shine? he administers balm to all lost loves: "But I've long ago forgiven you/ For what you did or didn't do." With these witty, poignant songs, Jennings proves that the country heart is equidistant from the brain and the gut. Keep on Waylon...