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Franz Ferdinand begin many of their songs with a nod to their influences before heading off towards parts unknown. “Come on Home” starts with a shimmering guitar line on loan from Blondie, then grooves away unabashedly with some positively Keatsian lyrical work from Kapranos: “Moonlight falls upon your perfect skin / Falls, and you draw back again...
Tobias, drawing nods and occasional applause from those who did not nod and applaud for Michelman, told the audience that she is happy that some people vote consistently for pro-life candidates...
...NCLB)—chances are you wouldn’t get a very warm response. Viscerally aware of the party dogma on decentralization, a lot of Republicans have reacted violently to NCLB’s federal mandates; others, the more disconcerting band of Bush cheerleaders, usually give a nod of the head and a coy few words, perhaps a “well, he tried.” On the Left, NCLB occupies a place on the official hit list of Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., with the senator’s blithe suggestion of a National Education...
...public last week; its thousand or so pages of trade legalese left readers wishing for the shiny simplicities of the spin doctors and politicians. In a perfect world, Australian Prime Minister John Howard would say to President George W. Bush: "Let's have free trade." Bush would nod, they would shake on it and alert the press. The agreement, with all the seals and signatures, would fit on one page, and the two countries would instantly become a single market - no tariffs, no quotas. But the deal struck last month is not so pure. Amid the hype and hysteria...
Having clinched the party nod, John Kerry will work wonders with swing voters employing the trademark populism and down-to-earth demeanor that could only come from a good ol’ boy Mass. Democrat...