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...Champagne”—the album’s weakest track—there’s an abundance of ridiculous lyrics (“She’s gonna get me folked up, fairly beat”) and honky tonk piano, but they mesh together spectacularly, part of an unlikely master plan. The second half of the album falls off a bit into tracks with less distinction, but there still exists a plentiful and varied garage rock buffet within. There’s more than a little bite in Eleanor’s voice...
...Hurt Locker” fits into the canon of war cinema, it is the most gripping American attempt at the genre since “Saving Private Ryan” and easily the best film to date made on the current war in Iraq. A large part of its success lies in the fact that it doesn’t proselytize. Unlike previous Iraq War films like “Stop-Loss,” which patronizes viewers with takeaways they already agree with, “Hurt Locker” disguises its message with subtlety, focusing on the difficult...
Owing in large part to the Administration's ham-handed advance work, the strident conservative anger that erupted this summer over health-care reform has shifted from town halls to school halls. On the surface, Obama's intentions for Tuesday seem nothing more threatening than a presidential pep talk about taking education seriously. But some ill-advised prep material from the Education Department - like suggestions that teachers have students write letters on "how to help the President" and recommendations that those pupils read his books - has left the door ajar (and that's all it seems to take these days...
That's not an objection anyone remembers Republicans making when both Bush I and Ronald Reagan delivered their direct-to-the-classroom talks in the 1980s and '90s. But if there is one conservative criticism that even liberals can relate to, it's that the speech seems part of this President's overexposure. "Every time you turn around, there he is, there he is, there he is," Dean grouses. And lately, at least, every time Obama turns around, he seems to give conservatives an opening to pounce on him. Which is why many Democrats as well as Republicans suggest...
...There is much at stake. Securing the Caucasus region, which is veined with oil and gas pipelines, has become a priority for both Russia and the U.S. But history is a potent saboteur in this part of the world and talks have collapsed before under its weight. In 1915, the Ottoman Turkish army, fighting against Russia to maintain its territories, sent the region's Armenian population on a "death march" toward Syria. Armenians say 1.5 million were killed in a genocide. Turkey rejects that term, maintaining that the expulsion was a wartime measure necessary to quash Armenian nationalists who sided...