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...OK, maybe they used to say the same thing about Saddam Hussein. But then I went out on a patrol with the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Sadr City, which has some of the meanest streets in Iraq. The kids everywhere treated the GIs as friends, which I took as some sort of measure of how many of their parents must feel, too. It's possible they were nervous, or putting up a facade, at the sight of heavily armed foreign soldiers in their midst. But I found the same sentiment while interviewing Iraqis in different parts of the country...
Naturally, Yorke believes this was largely the fault of a whacked-out world. After the release of 1997's OK Computer (voted best album of the 20th century by the slightly presentist readers of England's Q magazine), Radiohead appeared to become the band--and the brand--of a certain kind of contrarian chic. If you were smart, cool and worried about the world, nothing broadcast it quicker than some casually scattered Radiohead discs. Yorke blames the forces of commerce for making him feel like a cartoon. "Ultimately you get to a point--Coldplay's a good example right...
You’re not supposed to cheer in the press box. But muted jeering always seemed to be OK. And without the ability to turn to fellow hockey writer Tim McDonald and say that “so and so is really sucking it down tonight,” sportswriting wouldn’t be nearly as enjoyable...
Kristi: The instructions are disarmingly simple—squat and then jump and throw your arms back. Uh, OK...
...weeks. Consumer confidence has risen. Bush's position is that while people have cause for concern, things aren't so bad, considering. "We've been racked with inflation, scandal, war and emergency," he said. "Yet we're still growing." All of that is true - OK, except for the part about inflation, which is at a four-decade low. Such economic misspeak underscores the difficulty Bush may have preaching on a subject where even experts can be incomprehensible...