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Joanna Newsom plays the harp, writes esoteric songs that contain words like Tulgeywood and sings in a high-pitched warble that manages to sound both beautiful and pained at the same time. It took the 28-year-old songwriter four years to release Have One on Me, the three-disc follow-up to her critically acclaimed sophomore album Ys. Newsom talks to TIME about the process of creating a monstrous album, why she wishes she was a better composer and what happened when she lost her voice. (Watch "Out Now: Spoon, Vampire Weekend and VV Brown...
...Nowhere is the urgency to deal with debt greater than in Europe, where it has become the most serious test of the 11-year-old euro-based monetary system. While euro-zone nations use the same currency, there is no mechanism in place to financially aid wayward members. That's how a crisis in Greece, which represents a mere 2.8% of the zone's GDP, can have such an outsized impact. The ultimate fear is that Greece will default, dragging down the euro with it. "A lot of the euro's problems today are rooted in those members having failed...
...plans. So far, he's held firm. A recent poll showed that two-thirds of Greeks believe the Prime Minister's measures are necessary; only 41% think they go far enough. "The government has seen the problem and is trying to do something," says Helen Tourkogeorgou, a 32-year-old stay-at-home mother in Athens. "The crisis has opened its eyes...
...leaders like Gates persist in the old ideas of wars, troops and battlefields? Sending troops across the world to "win" is a fundamentally flawed and outmoded concept--not to speak of the fact that we as a nation cannot afford it. The terrorists are slowly bleeding our nation toward ruin as we are drawn into war after impossible...
...days. On Feb. 1, Sheik Fuad Mohamed Shangole, a leader of an Islamist group known as al-Shabab (the Youth), which is fighting for control of the nation on the Horn of Africa, made a public declaration of allegiance to Osama bin Laden. If that summons memories of the old relationship between the Afghan Taliban and bin Laden, it should. Both Somalia and Afghanistan have been at war for more than a generation. Both wars have followed a similar progression: a toppling of the central government that was followed by years of warlord feuding (18 U.S. soldiers died protecting...