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...Allen was forced to comment on an unusual office accessory that had once graced his desk: just a "little old noose." Of course. Hardly big enough to hang a mouse, but quite large enough to rope in numerous allegations of racial intolerance, ranging from the credible (he has a peculiar fondness for the Confederacy) to the ridiculous and untrue (he had a dog named "Sambo"). Seeking to assuage concerned voters, Allen held what the campaign called an "ethnic rally." Proving him to be not racist - anymore - just condescending...
...vicious,” in fact, you might even say she’s “Fergalicious.” Fundamentally, Fergie treats herself as simply a piece of eye-candy, a buxom bonbon. Visually, the video verges on seizure inducing, with dizzyingly kaleidoscopic scenes. There are also peculiar visuals, such as a svelte and feline sylph painted in pink and purple stripes, looking very much like a human Cheshire Cat. As Fergie and her friends lather up with frosting for soap in a kiddie-pool of cake, it became clear that any social commentary on the problems...
...aren’t sagging pitifully in a way that strikes too close to home. The crowd at the Avalon came as no surprise, then, and tossle-headed twenty-somethings rubbed sweaty elbows with drunken father figures.The opening act, The Black Angels, took some warming up to. But their peculiar brand of metal-tinged psychedelia, reminiscent of Brit-poppers The Music, got better the longer they played. A different sound than the headliners, to be sure, and, while the crowd responded politely, lead singer Alex Maas’ reminder to “stick around for the Black Keys?...
...Army, setting their bayonets into place by the middle of 2001. It was only the al-Qaeda attacks that saved Rumsfeld's job later that year, many Pentagon insiders believe. Overnight, he achieved pop-culture status, his stern countenance and parrying of press questions bringing him a peculiar kind of Washington fame in those scary weeks following 9/11. Yet it was the pair of wars launched in the wake of those terror strikes that, over time, highlighted on a far bigger stage his short-sighted and subordinate-ruffling demeanor. The cracks in his management acumen began showing as the insurgency...
...been training pretty hard with the coaches, both Kyle and I trained pretty hard. I wanted to win overall.”MIT NO RINGER INVITETwenty teams traveled to MIT on Saturday for the No Ringer Invite, a low-stress event that saw the peculiar pairing of Harvard and Wellesley as a dual-team. The combination finished in seventh place overall, with Wellesley’s Kira Treibergs and Cordellia Chansler steering A-division to a seventh place finish. In B-division, the Crimson’s freshman tandem of skipper James Fish and crew Ali Beyer earned Harvard...