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...solidarity. The camera cuts back and forth from so many angles that it becomes difficult to tell who’s who. They’re definitely two separate characters again at the end, though; Sara looks less than pleased at her sister for putting her through the whole ordeal. The catchy tune, innovative lyrical phrasing, and interesting harmonies make the video worth watching. Eventually, you end up wondering just what Tegan and Sara need rescuing from. Modern psychiatry? Bathtubs? Mainstream moodiness in general? It’s unclear, really, but it’s certainly not themselves...
...anesthetic can wear off, while another drug keeps the condemned paralyzed, thus giving the illusion of serenity, underscored with massive unseen pain. The drugs are known to take anywhere between seven minutes to two hours to be effective, and finding a suitable vein is often a long, torturous ordeal. It is stupefying to fathom that lethal injection, which has been used for almost 25 years, is only now being seen as cruel and unusual punishment. This makes lethal injection more insidious. By disguising the true horror of execution with medicine, lethal injection anesthetizes society to what amounts to murder...
...While there's little sign of an end to the ordeal of the those in the camps, for the entrepreneurs of El Fasher, things look likely to get even better: At the end of 2007, the struggling AU mission will be merged into a 26,000-strong hybrid U.N. operation. Already, new houses are springing up close to the razor-wire fence of the AU headquarters, where simple four-bedroom houses can fetch $2,000 a month. Tajel al-Din Dissa, an economics lecturer at the university, is among those investing in property. He rents one house...
...Antoon rarely mentions Iraq explicitly in the poems. Were it not for this slim volume's title - and a few references to the Euphrates and the Tigris - you'd hardly know that the poems in The Baghdad Blues were specifically about the ordeal of life in Iraq. Like Bosnian poet Semezdin Mehmedinovic - whose Sarajevo Blues recounts the wracking of that city - Antoon finds that agony is agony regardless of your GPS coordinates...
...from the Karachi airport to the mausoleum of Pakistan's founder on Thursday. Snipers will occupy rooftops and flyovers, and bomb disposal units have already started sweeping the route. It's a journey that usually takes less than an hour. Police and party organizers are expecting an ordeal that could last up to eighteen hours, as fans coming as far away as Kashmir, in the country's northeast, block her passage in an attempt to get a glimpse of their rehabilitated leader. Bhutto, who was greeted by a million-strong crowd when she returned from exile in 1986 to take...