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True confessions from the artist on this ravishing live recording: she was once bothered by an overly enthusiastic fan named Dick, to whom she dedicates her lake-clear version of John Fogerty's lovely, lonesome Lodi, and she is a major admirer of Minnie Pearl. Well, land's sake, this album is full of surprises. Fans might not expect this strong and graceful singer to fall about over the comic antics of the dingbat with the price tag dangling off her hat, but if there's one thing EMMYLOU HARRIS excels at, it's surprise. And, at the same time...
...work force would be considered functionally illiterate, meaning that they are unable to adequately perform in their job.) Stooping to Sakurauchi's level of discourse, Michigan Senator Donald Riegle shot back, "His attitude in slandering American workers was the same view the Japanese held the day their warplanes struck Pearl Harbor. Their arrogance was gone by 1945 when they learned the full measure of America's capability...
...pull back from foreign entanglements is an enduring part of the American psyche that rears up whenever the nation tires of exertions abroad. After World War I, the U.S. rejected membership in the League of Nations, adopted a restrictive immigration policy and eventually enacted high tariff barriers. It took Pearl Harbor and then communist expansionism to make internationalism the basis of U.S. foreign policy. Even during the heyday of the effort to contain communism, "the public never fully bought the challenge," says Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution. "Only a bipartisan consensus among elites kept the country's latent isolationism...
...different man, she alleged, who slammed her to the ground, pulled up her skirt, pulled aside her panties, raped her and then said indifferently, "No one will believe you." As she was asked to provide more and more graphic details of the alleged rape, she fidgeted with her pearl necklace, rubbed her left shoulder, then broke into uncontrollable tears. No one gave her a tissue at first, so she wiped them away with her hands as the courtroom audience watched in fascination...
...immense wave of attention the U.S. has been devoting to the 50th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor has made Japan nervous. Using language more specific than usual, Foreign Minister Michio Watanabe told the Washington Post, "We feel a deep remorse about the unbearable suffering and sorrow Japan inflicted on the American people and the peoples of Asia...