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...Best I" is a very coherent and well-chosen collection; the selected songs merge together and support each other very well. The album starts with the warbling navel-gazing of "This Charming Man" and then spirals upwards into increasingly light-headed images of crumbling self-control and bitter amusement...
Perhaps some sort of obligatory community service should also be a requirement for graduation. An authentic life requires a certain among of contemplation. I'm not suggesting that we become solipsistic navel-gazers, but we should be substantially implicated in the moral life of our society, committed to sustaining it, not eroding it. If not us at Harvard, then whom...
Europeans find that unsurprising. Europe, after all, is indulging in its own protracted bout of navel gazing now that moves toward a common defense and security policy have met with spectacular nonsuccess. Notes Andre Fontaine, chief editorialist and former editor of Le Monde: "A country that is deprived of enemies falls back on its internal problems." He adds, "The United States won the cold war, but it paid too high a price for victory. It no longer has the money or the public backing to play a prominent role abroad...
Morrissey used to possess the singular ability to make his obsessive self-pity entertaining. He moaned so pathetically and bemoaned his loveless fate with such vicious, sarcastic glee, that even the most navel-gazing songs retained a sense of humor. Since his split with the inspired Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, he's relied more and more on this lyrical inventiveness...
Critics, like anti-biotechnology activist Jeremy Rifkin, decried the FDA decision, arguing that tampering with nature could endanger consumers. In fact, though, many seemingly natural foods, including corn, nectarines and navel oranges, never existed before humans began to cross-breed -- a form of genetic engineering that simply takes a little longer than the laboratory version...