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...songwriting, a three-album epiphany--Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Highway 61 Revisited (1965) and Blonde on Blonde (1966)--in which cascades of surrealistic, high-art lyrics were married to the most elegant rock-'n'-roll musicianship. That was brought to a violent stop by Dylan's near fatal motorcycle crash in 1966, and when he resumed, the music--even the sound of his voice--was different...
...everything was meticulously decorated. After walking over a "magic carpet" to enter, you could go to the "harem"-themed library. Or, just head straight for the relatively empty dining hall to swing dance or the packed upper common room to grind on your date. And everyone else standing near...
...University leaders decided last week. “This is a contingent decision, that is, it can change depending on information about events yet to occur,” wrote Vice Provost for International Affairs Jorge I. Dominguez in an e-mailed statement. “But, given the near end of the academic year, it seemed sensible to reach this decision explicitly.” In the past week, several other colleges and universities, including Yale, have announced in cancellations for Mexico-bound trips due to concerns about swine flu. Office of International Programs Director Catherine H. Winnie said...
North Korean forces are invading South Korea. Drug gangs along the U.S.-Mexican border are seizing parts of El Paso, Texas. A nuclear device is floating in waters somewhere near the U.S. And, NATO forces are deploying along the border of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan to quell ethnic violence. American military minds confronted these crises in detail. But don't worry. It's not yet the end of the world. All were of fictional future scenarios from a U.S. Army wargame at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. They are designed to help U.S. forces anticipate and prepare...
...with. The United States has come to the point where it is not the lone superpower in the world and it is actually first among others," says Jay Nelson, the lead war game designer for one of the regional crisis panels. An additional complication, he adds, is that "The near peers [like China and Russia] that we have trying to discredit the legitimacy of the United States." (Check out a story about the threat of the Chinese navy...