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...night pickup. Then it ricochets into The Got No Shotgun HydraHead Octopus Blues, which takes up -- with pulsing drums and crunching guitar -- the matter of reciprocal footsie between government and drug dealers. The record is not an editorial, however. Baerwald is not interested in pointing fingers; he wants to nail a mood of corruptive malaise and the autoeroticism of power. One of the record's spookiest and loveliest songs, The Postman, takes a central image straight from the pages of James M. Cain, then expands it with a melody like a carbolic lullaby and with voice samplings from Jim Jones...
...hard to nail down a stereotype for North House, the smallest and one of the most sought-after houses in recent years. Some call it the beautiful house. Other just say it's the only Quad house where the residents have not been randomized. And many of them say they like to play foozball...
Bond traders did no such nail biting. They bid up prices all week, in a mood of sunny optimism that Clinton's program really will reduce deficits. In the bond market's calculus, a lower deficit equals less government borrowing equals higher bond prices equals lower interest rates (which move in the opposite direction). For the moment, that became a self-fulfilling prophecy: the yield on 30-year Treasury bonds fell to barely more than 7%, the lowest since such bonds were first issued in 1977. By Friday those prospects had begun to cheer stock traders too. Monday -- who knows...
...force ((presumably bombing)) against the Serbs in Kosovo and in Serbia proper." In all, it was a flurry of foreign policy activity that might be expected from a President preparing for another four years in office rather than one beginning his final three weeks. Bush is obviously moving to nail down his place in history as a foreign policy mover and shaker before handing his job over to Bill Clinton. "There's a lot of unfinished business," the President said at one point during his journey. "I would not be telling you the truth if I didn...
...made the turnaround from nail to hammer. Sullivan wants to do that, badly. So what kind of advice does O'Brien have for his cross-town counterpart...