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Mike Brenner’s spiraling, squealing lap steel lines are entrancing; the sheer volume of emotion that he can coax from a simple wooden plank with six strings, a raised bridge, and a steel tone bar is amazing. Most importantly, he also found the perfect timbres to complement Molina’s voice...
...That leaves Blair, whose strongest plank in this sad valedictory is the assumption that he will leave office before the next election, handing the job to his longtime deputy, Gordon Brown, the popular Chancellor of the Exchequer. It also leaves a mystery: Blair's odd combination of success and unpopularity. Even before Iraq, the Prime Minister was seen as a cool, distant, slightly dodgy figure. That was due in part to Blair's personality-he is awkward at empathy, his nervous smile six teeth too many-but it is also a consequence of his creed. Blair, like Clinton...
...breaks to small- and medium-sized companies, and proposed rules that would let the unemployed take jobs while retaining some of their benefits. He also said he'll spend €2 billion over the next four years on infrastructure projects like autobahns and railways. But there is one plank of Schröder's platform that is new: he's proposed cutting Germany's corporate tax rate, one of Europe's highest, from 25% to 19%. That's a major reversal for the Chancellor, who's spent the past year accusing new E.U. members from Central and Eastern Europe, where...
...turret of his Humvee near Mosul a few mornings before, thinking about the Philadelphia cheesesteak he would have for lunch, when a roadside bomb exploded in front of his vehicle. The massive blast ripped through the Humvee, throwing Chilles to the floor. "It was like a plank hit me across the back," he says. The shrapnel tore two holes in his lower back and ripped through his abdomen, narrowly missing his vital organs - a "miracle shot," says Chilles. Two years have passed since U.S.-led coalition forces stormed into Iraq and ousted Saddam Hussein. Since then, the Landstuhl Regional Medical...
...case stirred public outrage and quickly became a rallying point during Ukraine's orange revolution. Viktor Yushchenko, the former opposition leader who was elected President in December after street protests forced a rerun of the vote, denounced the Kryvorizhstal sale as "theft" and made the issue a central plank of his campaign. Now that Yushchenko has taken power, Kryvorizhstal has emerged as an early test of his resolve. Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko say they will re-examine the privatization of the company and dozens of other formerly state-owned firms, many of which were sold off to Kuchma...