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...things straight, O, whose seldom-used last name is Orzolek, digs Germans; Chase has never won anything; and Coco Beware, while a real cat, has yet to inspire a song, let alone a whole album. "It's interesting that people are prepared to believe such odd things about us," says guitarist Nick Zinner. "Either we haven't really defined ourselves yet, or our fans are a little crazy...
Famously permissive San Francisco, home of the counterculture revolution 40 years ago, might seem an odd choice for a giant Christian youth rally that its organizers dubbed a "reverse rebellion" against the excesses of pop culture. But sex and drugs were most emphatically not included with the rock 'n' roll at San Francisco's AT&T Park this past weekend, when some 25,000 screeching teens attended what amounted to a Lollapalooza for the Lord...
...Among the 430-odd foreigners kidnapped in Iraq so far in this conflict, only a few have been similarly rescued. By and large, the hostages are freed, for whatever reason, at the whim of their captors, or, else murdered once their presence becomes too problematic or unprofitable. The taking of these harmless humanitarians served, if nothing else, to remind that there?s only so far good intentions will take you in Iraq. That they bore no ill will, were staunchly non-violent, sympathetic to the Iraqis? plight, earnestly assimilating, and even anti-American in a barely veiled way, meant nothing...
...most demanding academic institutions despite our amazing ability to complete homework on time yet somehow lose it inside our backpacks. The same brain that gives us the useless and often harmful abilities to memorize baseball statistics and burp will also sometimes yield a brilliant idea. For every 100 odd impulses our male brain yields, there will be one impulse that leads to a creative, sensible result. Like my Latin teacher always used to tell me, even a broken clock is right twice a day. Our testosterone-soaked brains have done this world some good over the years, and I have...
...Maybe the book was just written at an odd time, but it seems like these pioneers have lost the urge to hit White Castle...